Family Archives Preserve History for Everyone

October 7, 2020

Story provided by Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar The Stillwater History Museum at the Sheerar preserves and protects numerous objects, letters, photographs, and documents safekeeping Stillwater’s memories for future generations. These rich-in-history items are […]

Speaker series will focus on Americans at war

August 12, 2019

Story provided by City of Stillwater and Stillwater Public Library This year, Stillwater Public Library and Oklahoma State University Department of History are collaborating to offer a six-part speaker series designed to engage the community […]

Author speaks about chronicle of little known WWII heroine

February 5, 2018

Story by Ammie Bryant, images provided by Anne Nelson “Everyone said she was a soviet spy,” Lucie ‘Pilette’ Spaak said in one of 3 dozen interviews with Anne Nelson about her mother, Suzanne Spaak. Anne […]

G.I.s and the Growth of Stillwater in the Late 1940s

October 17, 2016

Story by Roger Moore, Director of Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History Photos Courtesy of OSU Library Special Collections and University Archives Seventy years ago in the immediate aftermath of World War II, Stillwater and Oklahoma […]

A Century of Cowboy Cadets

September 7, 2016

Story by Roger Moore, Sheerar Museum of Stillwater History Director For 100 years, Oklahoma State University’s Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) has helped prepare young men and women for service in the military. Graduates of […]