Marxism, Communism, and Socialism all lifted high the rights of the "Worker."  Many of the first labor organizations were comi...

In the years between WW 1 and the Great Depression, the socialist party (sometimes also labeled the progressive but this is generally in...

Agnosticism’s strong right arm, Robert G.Ingersoll, figures prominently in two interesting stories from America’s heartland.  In Oklah...

Doors from the time period Although it had been around for at least ten  years, in 1903 'Big Ann's Place' became the reco...

They sit there on most formal forms, little boxes asking people to place themselves into small, political, cultural, and biological boxes ...

THE MEADOWS MURDER, PART TWO THE CRIME According to records of the event presented in court and through newspaper articles, the event...

From , "Tales of Hell's Half Acre", Marilyn A. Hudson: THE MEADOWS MURDER OF 1907, part 1: It was little wonder the st...

The Meadows Murder, Part 4 As if staged by a Hollywood director of suspense or horror, the grave was uncovered in the dead of night, by ...

Dec.12,1937 the Oklahoman , carried an article, "St. Joseph's to Try Novel Experiment", (pg.34) by building cabins on the l...

A haunting image comes out of one of America's most economically challenged cities shows a large old office space with thousands of squ...

A previous entry covered a Dark Spring in Oklahoma City.  A portion of the area's older homes were, at that time, destined for demo...

The ubiquitous windmill, featured in the early painting of nearly every would be artist of the west, is a haunting image often set in l...

Boiling Springs State Park, NW Oklahoma (near Woodward) is a single gurgling spring not as fascinating or visual as one might think. ...

It simply sat in the meadow, tall sprouting trees, heads of wild flowers and decorative grasses hugging its base as if to keep some inter...

Some of the entries which have elicited the most responses have been those associated with St. Joseph's Children's Home, Bethany, Ok...

Old Mooreland Hospital - Victims where taken to several hospitals in the region of the Tornado path. Mooreland is ten miles east of Woo...

The dawning of the new year has been punctuated by stories from around the globe of mysterious booms, explosions, and rattles for which no ...

Citizens gunned down on city streets, low flying planes dropping incendiary devices and passengers firing at people fleeing on the streets, ...

Recently, in a discussion with some researchers, an interesting question was raised about the timeline of terrorism . The researcher had ask...

In the post-Christmas cold of early Dec. 28, 1930, two bodies were found along theroad near the Salt Fork River near Tonkawa, Oklahoma.   ...

The Russian Flu, 1888-1889, reached North America in 1889-90. About a million people globally died in total. In the 1918 Flu , millions of ...

In the sultry southern Texas community of Austin over the course of one year, a killer stalked the sidewalks.   His victims are thought ...