historic preservation

Two Oklahoma properties will join the National Register of Historic Places. A spot on the list means recognition and some protections for the Prairie House in Norman and the Haywood Estate in Oklahoma City. A third home, Harrah’s Rock House, is expected to make the list in the coming weeks.

Larney, a Choctaw of Oklahoma and a Seminole Nation citizen, explores in his work the intersection of racial identity, cultural struggles, and the history of his native nations.

Standing high above the Eastern Plains of Colorado, east of Limon, stands the “World’s Wonder View Tower,” which during the town’s heyday, was a popular…

A temporary exhibit at Oklahoma City’s City Hall this week is drawing attention to many of the state’s “Most Endangered Historic Places” in hopes of…

The Topeka Capital-Journal recently described the Kansas State Historical Society’s archives as “Kansas’s scrapbook.” In the society’s archive wing you’ll…

If you want to excavate a shipwreck, you don’t have to buy a submarine and go cruise the Caribbean. You need only travel to certain cornfields in Kansas,…

In light of the standoff in Oregon, KUT has published a reminder that Texas has seen its own share of standoffs. In fact, the state’s most famous battle…

Fans of High Plains history might be interested in a major new biography of George Armstrong Custer, entitled Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of…

Recently a number of high-end US restauranteurs made headlines when they banned tipping in their establishments. But as NPR.org reports, this supposedly…

A half-dozen horseback riders traveled back into the 1840s last week on the Comanche National Grasslands. Their mission: to spend three days living like…