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Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the chapter “Interview with John Millar, Head of the Christian Identity Community” from Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed—and Why It Still Matters, by Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles, Copyright @ 2012 by William Morrow, and reprinted here with permission. The passage below…

The following is a collaboration by Lee Roy Chapman and Joshua Kline.

Bad men are drawn to the City of God. The Southern Poverty Law Center calls it the meeting ground for America’s most sinister extremists. Many Oklahomans regard it as the most dangerous and mysterious place…

Editor’s Note: The 4/15 issue of THIS LAND will offer several remarkable feature articles that shed new light on the Oklahoma City Bombing: “Who’s Afraid of Elohim City?” by Lee Roy Chapman and Joshua Kline is an exclusive, in-depth and on-site article featuring John Millar, pastor of the Christian Identity…

This Land’s new television show will make its debut on March 5! The show will be broadcast on Cox Cable throughout Oklahoma on channels 3 & 703, and will also be available On Demand. Check back soon for more details.

During the Great Depression, photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information began cataloging the economy’s effect across the country–and some of the rare color photos contain images of Oklahoma. They’re available for viewing through the Library of Congress’s archives.

In this photo by John Vachon, we see four…

Jim Marston is the founding director of the Texas office of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), located in Austin, where he has served since its beginning in 1988. Jim is the head of EDF’s national Energy Program and also serves as Regional Director of EDF’s Texas Office.

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The 2011 Tulsa Holiday Parade of Lights wasn’t your average parade. In a triumphant display of community togetherness, thousands of people joined in celebrating the holiday season. For the first time in its 85-year year history, the parade included Tulsa’s Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities.

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Washington-based winemaker Charles Smith and local wine distributor Scott Large take us to Burn Co. BBQ, where they unapologetically indulge in the hedonistic, meaty masterpiece that’s known only as “The Fatty.”

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Lee Roy Chapman lets us ride shotgun on a whirlwind tour through painter-poet Joe Brainard’s Tulsa. Together, we learn that Brainard’s history is, ultimately, our own history.