Grade 3: Social Studies Academic Standards

3.1.4 Describe relationships between people and events of the past, including those commemorated on national, state, and community holidays.

Oklahoma History Center Education Resources

History Alive! Living History
Revolutionary War Soldier
Civil War Soldier
World War II Nurse

Traveling Trunks
Civil War in Indian Territory
Oklahomans and the War in Vietnam
African Americans in Oklahoma

E-Exhibits
The 45th Infantry Division
The African American Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma
African Americans in Oklahoma Before 1954
Oklahomans and the Vietnam War
World War I and the Art of War: WWI Posters from the Collection of Oscar Jacobson

The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture

Jimmie Lewis Franklin, "African Americans"
James M. Smallwood, "Segregation"
Larry O'Dell, "Senate Bill One"
James M. Smallwood, "NAACP"
Nudie E. Williams, "Perkins, George Napier"
Bruce T. Fisher, "Currin, Green I." 
Jere Roberson, "McCabe, Edward P."
John H. L. Thompson, "Dunjee, Roscoe"
Melvin C. Hall, "Fisher, Ada Lois Sipuel"
Alfred L. Brophy, "McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents (1950)"
Stefanie Lee Decker, "Luper, Clara Shepard"
Robert H. Henry, "Civil Rights Movement"
Mike Gonzales, "Forty-fifth Infantry Division"
Kenny A. Franks, "Oklahoma National Guard"
Jon D. May, "Spanish-American War"
Jim Bissett, "World War I"
Brad Agnew, "World War II"
Lance Janda, "Korean War"
Lance Janda, "Medal of Honor Recipients"
William C. Meadows, "Code Talkers"
Corie Delashaw, "Oklahombi, Joseph"

Research Center Resources

Clara Luper, Behold the Walls (Oklahoma City: Jim Wire, 1979)

Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, ed. African American Women Confront the West: 1600–2000 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003)

Kenny A. Franks, Citizen Soldiers: Oklahoma's National Guard (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984)

William C. Meadows, Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Military Societies: Enduring Veterans, 1800 to the Present (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999)

Oscar Lee Owens, A History of the Second World War: A Remembrance, An Appreciation, A Memorial (Oklahoma City: Victory Publishing Co., 1948)

The Fighting Men of Oklahoma, 2 Vols. (Oklahoma City: Victory Publishing Co., 1946)

"World War, 1939–1945" (vertical file, OHS)

J. James Ingalls, America's War for Humanity: Related in Story and Picture, Embracing a Complete History of Cuba's Struggle for Liberty… (New York: N.D. Thompson Pub. Co., 1898)

Herschel V. Cashin, Under Fire. With the Tenth U.S. Cavalry: Being a Brief, Comprehensive Review of the Negro's Participation in the Wars of the United States (Chicago: American Publ. House, 1902)

Billy McGinty, Oklahoma Rough Rider: Billy McGinty's Own Story (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008)

C. E. Andrews, ed. From the Front; Trench Poetry (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1918)

Alison R. Bernstein, American Indians and World War II: Toward a New Era in Indian Affairs (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991)

Margaret T. Bixler, Winds of Freedom: The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II (Darien, Conn.: Two Bytes Pub. Co., 1992)

Harry W. Dobbyn, It Was Worth It! : World War II with the Thunderbird Division (Tampa: Free Press Pub. Co., 1976)

Lowell P. Johnston, Stories of World War II from WW II Vets of Tulsa, OK (S.l.: Johnston, 2005)

James Brady, The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea (New York: Orion Books, 1990)

Fred A. Daugherty, The Forgotten War (Oklahoma City: 45th Infantry Division Museum, 1995)

Joe L. Todd, Interviews with Vietnam Veterans (Bartlesville: Joe L. Todd, 2011)

Stanley W. Beesley, ed., Vietnam: The Heartland Remembers (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987)

John Pimlott, ed., Vietnam, The History and The Tactics (New York: Crescent Books : Distributed by Crown Publishers, 1982)

Audio/Visual
A Sense of Duty, 1961 (2010.108, Oklahoma Historical Society Film and Video Collection, OHS)

"Comanche Code Talkers Monument Dedication," (Chester R. Cowen Collection, OHS)

D-Day Twelve Years Later, footage from Altus Air Force Base, c. 1956–57 (F2013.134, WKY-TV Film Collection, OHS)

Oral Histories

Spanish-American War
Interview with James Clark Nance, 1983/03/24 (H1983.069, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Roy Evans, 1983/08/29 (H1983.141, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)

World War I
Interview with Hugh Ross, 1988/03/22 (H1988.029, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with George Elmore, 1985/02/14 (H1985.034, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Charles Wesley and Olive Cole, 1985/09/03 (H1985.171, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Gray Leonard and Roy Rooker, 1982/11/04 (H1982.007, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)

World War II
Interview with Truman Smith, 1984/11/07 (H1984.148, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview With Kenneth, Kathleen, and Ozetta Peltier (H1983.139, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Barney Christy, 1983/03/03 and 1985/04/24 (H1983.040, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Stanley Cook, 1985/03/14 (H1985.070, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Silas Wolf, 1987/12/01 (H1987.273, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Joe Lawter, 1987/12/07 (H1987.276, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Bill Willett, 1976/11/18 (H1988.027, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Pendleton Woods, 1984/11/14 (H1984.156, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)

Korean War
Interview with Walter Hammert, 1999/12/28 (H1999.163, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with James E. Alexander, 1999/11/10 (H1999.151, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Harold Mulhausen, 1999/11/02 (H1999.145, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Billy P. Forehand, 1988/02/02 (H1988.010, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)

Vietnam War
Interview with George Gerald Red Elk, 1988/06/21 (H1988.091, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Thomas Clift, 1987/11/24 (H1987.269, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with Joe Lee Todd, 1988/07/11 (H1988.101, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)
Interview with William H. Talley (H1988.124, Oklahoma Historical Society Oral History Collection, OHS)

Desert Storm
Manuscripts, Transcripts, Veterans Video Interview Project, (Box 15, Joe L. Todd Collection, OHS)

Online Primary Sources

Martin Luther King Jr., Library of Congress
Martin Luther King Jr. portrait from Memorial Library, Library of Congress
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC, Library of Congress
Marilyn Luper Hildreth interview, Library of Congress
Calvin Luper interview, Library of Congress
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures, Library of Congress
Coffins of Spanish-American War dead, Library of Congress 
Letters of a volunteer in the Spanish-American War, Library of Congress
World War collections, Library of Congress
Armistice Day, 1922, Library of Congress
Veterans History Project, Library of Congress American Folklife Center
Korean War Memorial, Washington DC, Library of Congress 
Watching the War, Library of Congress 
The Wall of Faces, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
U.S. History: Primary Source Collections Online, Newton Gresham Library, Sam Houston State University

Additional Resources

"He Had A Very Powerful Dream," Library of Congress
The King Center
"The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom. Oklahoma City Sit-ins," Library of Congress
"Dr. Martin Luther King," Smithsonian Institution 
"World War I," National Archives
"A Guide to World War II Materials," Library of Congress
"Veteran's Day Playlist," Library of Congress
"The Vietnam War: Primary Sources and Teaching Activities," DocsTeach
"The Fog of War," Washington Post
"The Gulf War," Frontline, PBS

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