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Oklahoma History at Home
Social Studies Resources and More by Grade
Timeline of Oklahoma History
Audio Tour, Virtual Tour, and Activities
Audio Tour (available in English, Spanish, French, and German)
Check out our PDF activity sheets created specifically for our virtual tour.
E-Exhibits
- The 45th Infantry Division
- The African American Civil Rights Movement in Oklahoma
- African Americans in Oklahoma Before 1954
- Archaeology in Oklahoma
- Banking and the Federal Reserve
- Commerce in Oklahoma
- Cows and Cowhands
- Child Labor in Oklahoma: The Photographs of Lewis Hine, 1916–1917
- A Fluid Frontier: Minority and Ethnic Groups and Opportunity in Oklahoma
- Government
- The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the New Deal in Oklahoma
- Latino History in Oklahoma
- Oklahomans and Space
- Oklahomans and the Vietnam War
- The Oklahoma Century Chest
- Oklahoma Education
- The Opening of Oklahoma
- Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!
- Sonic Drive-In: A History
- Steamboat Heroine
- The Story of the Capitol
- Tenant Farming in Oklahoma
- The Tulsa Race Massacre
- The USS Oklahoma
- World War I and the Art of War: Posters from the Collection of Oscar Jacobson
- Women’s Suffrage in Oklahoma
Activities
- Oklahoma Bingo instructions and printable cards
- Oklahoma state symbols list and
- printable bookmarks
- Printable crosswords, wordfinds, word scrambles, coloring sheets
- We Remember...Before and Beyond: An African American History Coloring Book (PDF)
- Which famous Oklahoman are you? Take the quiz!
- Winnie’s Travels
- Design Around Town, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum–English (PDF)
- Design Around Town, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum–Spanish (PDF)
- OHC Winter at Home Activities (PDF)
- Smithsonian Winter at Home Activities (PDF)
Collections and Archives
- Photos, newspapers, and more: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
- Select documents and images: Online Catalog
- Artifacts and exhibits: Google Arts & Culture
- Online genealogical resources
- Interviews, movies, and sports: OHS Film and Video Archives
- Broadcast history: WKY, KTVY, KFOR Archives
- Voices of the past: Oral History and Audio Archives
Crossroads online publication
- “16 Tons: The Story of Coal in Oklahoma”
- “‘Anything You Can Do’: American Cowgirl Lucille Mulhall”
- “Feeding an Army: Historic Fort Gibson”
- “The Good Fight: Oklahoma City Sit-Ins”
- “Home on the Range”
- “True West: Cowboy Culture and ‘Pistol Pete’ Frank Eaton”
- “Sea Salt: The Oklahoma Salt Plains”
- “Seeds of History”
- “Spiro Mounds: A Story of Prehistoric Oklahoma”
- “Uncover Your Roots”
- “Woody Guthrie: The Dust Bowl Balladeer”
Publications and More
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
The Oklahoma Series
- America’s Exiles: Indian Colonization in Oklahoma
- Between Two Worlds: The Survival of Twentieth Century Indians
- Boundaries of Oklahoma
- Cities of Oklahoma
- Drill Bits, Picks, and Shovels: A History of Mineral Resources in Oklahoma
- Early Military Forts and Posts in Oklahoma
- Frontier Adventurers: American Exploration in Oklahoma
- Geography of Oklahoma
- Indian Leaders: Oklahoma’s First Statesmen
- Mark of Heritage: Oklahoma’s Historic Sites
- Of the Earth: Oklahoma Architectural History
- Oklahoma’s Forgotten Indians
- Oklahoma’s Governors, 1890–1907: The Territorial Years
- Oklahoma’s Governors, 1907–1929: Turbulent Politics
- Oklahoma’s Governors, 1929–1955: Depression to Prosperity
- Oklahoma’s Governors, 1955–1979: Growth and Reform
- Railroads in Oklahoma
- Ranch and Range in Oklahoma
- Rural Oklahoma
- Will Rogers: A Centennial Tribute
- Women in Oklahoma: A Century of Change
