Greg Hand

In the 1900s, Cincinnati Public Schools implemented open-air classrooms to fight infectious disease like tuberculosis, even during winter.

After Aaron Burr murdered Alexander Hamilton, he passed through Cincinnati several times as he plotted against the United States.

Cincinnati’s first jazz bandleader, Harry Spindler, eventually became the city’s go-to expert on collecting and selling exotic animals.

From the mid-1950s into the 1960s, sonic booms were an amazing and annoying regular occurrence in Cincinnati skies.

The infamous Noodle Factory saloon brought in a clientele interested in one of two pastimes: fisticuffs or watching fisticuffs.

The Ohio River was boss on Black Sunday in 1937, but we’ve never given up trying to tame it.

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.