In ancient Greece an art form emerged from the annual worship of local gods. A competition then developed and poets worked through human con...

The idea of a woman as warrior is not merely a 20th century feminist agenda item. From ancient times come tales, images, and facts supportin...

All the Little Children. M. Hudson. 2011. In the land of Ozzie & Harriet Nelson, I Love Lucy’s crazy simple life, and our stereotypes...

As a child in Wellington, Kansas there was a railroad yard not far from where we lived and although all the children were instructed to neve...

The "Good old days" might mean different things to different people. The list of death and murder in a time so often envisioned a...

In January 1911 in Rayne, Louisiana a mother and her four children were hacked to death by an unknown killer as they slept. In February in C...

From the 1880's through the 1920's - literally thousands died at the hands of mobs in the United States. Most were racially motivat...

Did Jack the Ripper get his start in Texas? Some researchers have suggested just that. The crimes, called at the time the Servant Girl Annih...

From the soon to be released..."When Death Rode the Rails"(c) by Marilyn A. Hudson. The Axe Man Cometh There was a time when...

Sometimes, home can be the most mysterious place of all. Searching for an address in my hometown, I followed a 'bunny trail' trying ...

see more Historic LOL Although of questionable origin the 'guide' is reflective of attitudes by many in the time period. No accurate...

Once upon a time, in a land long ago, Christmas was celebrated with shiny aluminum trees. Oh, what modern marvels! How they glinted, glitter...

For shivers and suspense the 1951 Hawk's film, The Thing From Another World , aka The Thing , is hard to beat in movies of its day. It w...

It is the classic mythic image - Viking warriors tramping across the land in huge horned helmets. The only problem they did not wear them. T...

In 1909, little Florence Bellmont insured Santa understood her letter by writing it in several languages: French, German, Italian, Latin, an...

Unlike poor Mrs. O'Leary's Chicago cow, there is apparently no one to blame for the great 1973 fire at the National Archives and Rec...

A man who helped make Oklahoma City was it became was Charles Colcord. His lovely residence, 421 NW 13th,was built after he 'made it...

The lovely and majestic columns on the old Phillips campus in Enid, Oklahoma will be moved according to a new plan to open a Smithsonian qua...

Many people assume that the Roswell event was the beginning of reported sightings of unexplained things in the skies. An image said to be th...

Several years ago doing research for a social history project I explored the subject of UFO's... Anyone who has delved deeply into the ...

Several advertisements for 'bungalows' appeared in early Oklahoma City newspapers. They appeared to be centered in the NE 8th and NE...

I remember sitting in seventh grade English one warm autumn day as the teacher picked up the dogeared old text, flipped a page or two and th...

CAREY PLACE (OKC) In the early 1990's accounts of a " Hatchet House" with accompanying awful murder and porch painted re...

Let me tell you about...." Tellabration" (R) - A global celebration of storytelling held each November. Each November storyteller...

In one of the world's oldest writings, The Odyssey , attributed to Homer in the 8th century BCE, there is an interesting scene of Hade...

Early native inhabitants had strong storytelling traditions as integral parts of their ancient cultures. Various immigrants since then have ...

As a notorious trial was dragging on in 1907 Oklahoma City, a small kernel of news was mentioned in passing. The death currently in the news...

Sometimes history is putting together two perspectives in order to gain true focus on the past. The larger histories of the areas of Oklahom...