by Sharon Hall | Aug 1, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
July was a busy month. After wrapping up the latest issue of Digging History Magazine, featuring the Prairie State of Illinois, I tackled a number of client projects — genealogical research, writing family stories and designing family history charts. Here are...
by Sharon Hall | Aug 1, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
In June of 1932 a column appeared in newspapers across the country, entitled “Questions and Answers from Washington”. Apparently it was a chance for everyday citizens to ask a burning question which was answered by someone in Washington, D.C. The...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 25, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
As a genealogist and writer, I absolutely LOVE researching newspaper archives. I’m finding new resources for historic newspaper archives all the time, but my favorite sites include Newspapers.com, GenealogyBank and Newspaper Archive. I can’t tell you how...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 18, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
While historians are more likely to refer to this radical part of American history as “Agrarian Socialism”, I like to call the Oklahoma version “Red Dirt Socialism”. Red is, after all, associated with Socialism and Communism (the Cold War term “red menace” comes to...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 11, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
The third issue of 2026 features articles on Illinois, “The Prairie State”. Digging History Magazine is a bi-monthly digital publication which combines the disciplines of history and genealogy, our philosophy being that in order to be adept at one discipline...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 11, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
Socialism has once again made its way into the national conversation of late (Has it really ever left? After all, the Pilgrims gave it a try and it didn’t go so well.). Today, Oklahoma is often cited as the nation’s “reddest” (most...
