Oklahoma: A Story Through Her People

Oklahoma is her people—present and past. Oklahomans
have changed the world around them. Oklahoma artists have
used oils, pastels, pencils, stone, and many other media
to project their imagination in the form of art. In the same
way, Oklahoma authors and poets have recorded our past
in both fiction and non-fiction. Marquis James won Pulitzer
Prizes for biographies of Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson.
Grant Foreman wrote of the American West. Angie Debo
courageously told the story of the hardships faced by the
American Indians being forced to move to Indian Territory.
John Hope Franklin became the nation’s leading African
American historian.
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