Greg Hand

Curious tales about Plum vs. Plumb, Copelen vs. Copeland, Whetsel vs. Wetsel vs. Whetzel, and the best way to get your name on a street.

Health officials and the local media advocated vaccinations to fight local smallpox outbreaks and to combat “false and foolish” anti-vax propaganda. The disease was eventually defeated.

A University of Cincinnati philosophy professor was sacked for privately raising doubts about the sanctity of marriage and run out of town.

The vagaries of menswear fashion trends caused a public stir, but not much action, a century ago.

Queen City women enjoyed a wild swing from hobbled skirts to harem skirts from one year to the next, despite the naysayers, church critics, and anti-feminists.

Geologists name lots of things for Cincinnati because our bedrock is unique and world-famous. Here’s the dirt on our world-renowned fossils.

Back in the day, Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky hosted a number of summer entertainment stations, from Queen City Beach to Lagoon Park to Chester Park. They're all gone, even the memories.

A proposal to build a world-famous gambling hall downtown, complete with the original Statue of Liberty, tripped up gullible locals between 1883 and 1980.

Besides beer, the city’s population seemed to run on oysters for the entire 1800s and the first half of the 1900s.

First prize for The Cincinnati Post's 1916 big-head contest was, no surprise, a new hat.