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...
by Sharon Hall | Jul 4, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
July 4, 1876 – The United States was celebrating its centennial, eleven years following the end of the Civil War. In Philadelphia, soldiers from the North and South, “the Blue and the Gray”, marched together. There were lively and soul-stirring festivities held...
by Sharon Hall | Jun 27, 2026 | Digging History, Digging History Magazine, Services, Special Offers
These men died on April 19, 1775, more than a year prior to the day we are about to celebrate, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. They were the first to give their lives for our freedoms. It was a lop-sided skirmish...
