An 1884 riot burned down the Courthouse to protest a rigged murder trial, putting Cincinnati’s crooked political machine on notice.

Cincinnati Post columnist Alfred “Cincinnatus” Segal used his column to critique Judge Dennis Ryan's rulings, sometimes approvingly, more often critically.

In the early 1900s, soubrettes were characteristically flirtatious, and local newspapers considered the showgirls approximately equivalent to prostitutes.

There is no question that John M. Withrow was a big wheel in Cincinnati. But he met his match when he picked a fight with the city’s German pretzel bakers.

Powhatan Beaty, an African-American Civil War war hero, was a man of many talents, including Shakespeare.

Cincinnati residents had a hard time kicking the habit when alcohol manufacturing and sales became illegal 100 years ago.

Here's what happened to the three couples that wed during the 1879 Marriage Picnic, including one couple's connection to Cincinnati’s 1884 Courthouse Riot.

On August 10, 1879, 5,000 paying spectators converged on Inwood Park to eat, drink beer, and watch prostitutes get married.

After her husband's cotton crop failed in 1867, she looked to butter as a way to maintain a steady income.

A Cincinnati election in 1875 fanned anti-Catholic flames and a newspaper war, and might have led to a downtown church attack.