In this episode, historian Lee Roy Chapman lets us ride shotgun on a whirlwind tour through painter-poet Joe Brainard's Tulsa

In this episode, historian Lee Roy Chapman introduces us to Okemah, Oklahoma, the birthplace of the iconic folk musician, author, and cartoonist Woody Guthrie.

In this episode of Public Secrets, historians Lee Roy Chapman and J. Kavin Ross uncover a forgotten Creek Freedmen cemetery in South Tulsa.

In this episode of Public Secrets, historian Lee Roy Chapman delves into the infamous Sex Pistols show at Tulsa's Cain's Ballroom in 1978.

In this episode, we explore The White Dove Review–a short-lived but highly influential poetry magazine published in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from 1959 to 1960 by three high school students: Ron Padgett, Joe Brainard, and Dick Gallup.

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by Lee Roy Chapman Photo by the Author. A similar exterior shot of this house is featured in Larry Clark's 1971 photobook Tulsa . Located...

By all accounts, fallen Tulsa Police Commissioner Secretary Harry Harrison Aurandt's burial at Rose Hill Cemetery was quite a spectacle. An unannounced group of 12 Klansmen in full ceremonial regalia approached the funeral tent from the south carrying a large flaming cross of red roses to pay tribute to Aurandt.

Dr. S.G. Kennedy was furious. He had put his trust and money in a young man, who seemed to be making a name for himself in Tulsa, a former Wichita newspaper reporter who had once served as a private secretary to Congressman Bird McGuire of Oklahoma. Myron Boyle was the editor of the Indian Republican, one of Tulsa’s earliest weekly newspapers, which had been founded in 1891.

No one took credit for the bomb threat that January night. Though no device was found in the women’s restroom of Cain’s Ballroom, a bomb of a different sort was about to drop in Tulsa.

For 30-plus years, a small, isolated community in Northeastern Oklahoma has been the subject of endless scrutiny.

The FBI had cause to be concerned. Hargis’ tirades mirrored those from any number of early 20th century Ku Klux Klan pamphlets.

The seventeen men were terrified, and with good reason. They stood shivering in the November midnight air...