Route 66’s Ribbon Road
M.J. Alexander explores the thin line connecting the present to the last surviving stretch of Route 66’s historic ribbon road.
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M.J. Alexander explores the thin line connecting the present to the last surviving stretch of Route 66’s historic ribbon road.
M.J. Alexander disrupts a myth while investigating competing claims for the surprisingly contentious title of World’s Largest Peanut.
Placid to threatening but never-ending and nearly always beautiful – M.J. Alexander offers a photographic tribute to the ever-changing Oklahoma sky.
M.J. Alexander disrupts a myth about how Oklahoma measures up to other states in a tale of turnpikes.
Examining why the Price Tower in Bartlesville has the (Frank Lloyd) Wright stuff, but still sometimes gets the wrong label.
Oklahomans have a proud presence in the section of New York City labeled the Canyon of Heroes, which commemorates those who have been honored in ticker-tape parades.
A colorful photoessay focusing on old tractors that, though weathered by the slow flow of time, are making a comeback.
M.J. Alexander disrupts a common myth about Oklahoma’s size supremacy over states east of the Mississippi.
M.J. Alexander explains why, though it was close, Oklahoma doesn’t get to claim credit for the invention of the electric guitar.
The true story of Oklahoma guitarist Tommy Allsup, who lived on the day the music died.
Pioneering OKC mayor Patience Latting was beaten to the history books by 45 years – by Seattle’s Bertha Knight Landes.
Looking back at the lives of Oklahoma’s supercentenarians, and some of the wisdom they accumulated across the span more than a century.
With over a century in the books, the small-town Corn Bible Academy has amassed a long legacy … but not long enough to set a record.
130 years after Buffalo Bill performed for Queen Victoria, M.J. Alexander discovers some traces of the American prairie that still linger in the heart of London.
An investigation of why Oklahoma’s northeasternmost point is home to not one but two border monuments.
A massive totem pole in Rogers County is an enduring landmark and undeniably impressive, but doesn’t measure up to hype of its worldwide supremacy.
In a series devoted to fact-checking Sooner State folklore, M.J. Alexander checks the numbers behind the primacy of Oklahoma’s Native population.
M.J. Alexander unfurls the story of how one woman’s dedication made an overlooked mass of sand into Little Sahara State Park.
In a series devoted to fact-checking Sooner State folklore, M.J. Alexander investigates the purported uniqueness of the Round Barn of Arcadia.
In a story of survival, M.J. Alexander recounts the illustrious history of the battle-scarred U.S. Cavalry horse named Comanche.
In a series devoted to fact-checking Sooner State folklore, M.J. Alexander investigates the persistent myth that Guthrie has the world’s biggest Masonic temple.
M.J. Alexander ponders how our Amish communities have changed, and how many of their traditions remain the same.
In a series devoted to fact-checking Sooner State folklore, M.J. Alexander digests the persistent myth that Wrigley’s gum had its inspiration in Oklahoma.
In a series devoted to fact-checking Sooner State folklore, M.J. Alexander uncovers why claims of Cavanal Hill’s global notoriety don’t quite measure up.