The Oklahoma Historical Society and the Oklahoma State University Library Electronic Publishing Center are pleased to announce a joint project to digitize and make available on the web the Society’s quarterly journal, The Chronicles of Oklahoma, in a full-text, searchable database with links to tables, figures, photographs, maps, and other material.

The Gateway is an online repository of Oklahoma history. You may browse through hundreds of thousands of newspaper pages dating from the 1840s to the 1920s.

Includes Dewey, Ellis, Harper and Woodward counties

The Oklahoma Department of Libraries (ODL) is the official state library of Oklahoma.

Digital Prairie provides open access to Oklahoma’s documents, images, forms, publications and historical archives. It brings together Oklahoma’s own collection of unique digital content spanning more than 100 years of rich, vibrant history from the 46th State. The resource areas found in the Digital Collection include documents, photographs, newspapers, reports, pamphlets, posters, maps, audio/visual and more. Content ranges from the late 1800s to the present day.

The State Archives Collections

The Oklahoma Digital Maps Collection contains more than 9,200 images from the period 1803-1925.

ODL has gathered these resources to present information on tribal government and other sites related to the rich history of the Oklahoma Native American tribes for those interested in the geographic origins of the tribes who were removed to Oklahoma.

Historical collections digitized by the Edmon Low Library at Oklahoma State University.

Ok2Explore is a free searchable index of births and deaths that occurred in the state of Oklahoma. Included is limited information on births occurring more than 20 years ago and deaths occurring more than 5 years ago. Visitors to the site may search the index using any combination of the subject’s name, date of event (birth or death), county of event, and sex of the subject.

Includes Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, Stephens, Tillman, and Washita counties

The Genealogy Center of the Tulsa City-County Library is one of the largest genealogy collections in Oklahoma. This collection focuses not only on Tulsa and Oklahoma but provides additional sources covering many areas, primarily Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. The collection consists of books, microfilm, microfiche, CD-ROMs, maps, and access to online research services.

The Western History Collections is a special collection within the University of Oklahoma Libraries system. Its purpose is to enhance the University Libraries general collection on the history of the American West; to support the research and teaching programs of the University of Oklahoma; and to provide opportunities for research through the acquisition, preservation, and access of materials relating to the development of the Trans-Mississippi West and Native American cultures.