Greg Hand

So fascinated was the public by feats of avoirdupois that the owners of the Cincinnati Post launched a nationwide hunt for America’s fattest man in 1914.

It took centuries for medical science to figure out how allergies worked, much less how to alleviate their symptoms.

Only a twist of fate saved Cincinnati from a massacre in the days following November 4, 1791.

The intersection of Longworth Street and Central Avenue was the gateway to Cincinnati’s red-light district and the center of power for the notorious Eighteenth Ward. This was where George Barnsdale Cox, known as “Boss”...

It was the hottest day in Cincinnati history, during the hottest week in Cincinnati history and that torrid record still stands 85 years later. The summer of 1934 was a hot one all around...

The oeuvre of Neil Armstrong, poet, is slight, consisting as it does of only two published stanzas, and that bit of doggerel clouded by controversy. On the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, here...

A direct connection between Ohio and Kentucky that wasn’t at all direct.

Medical innovator Daniel Drake started the Medical College of Ohio and the Cincinnati College. Those two institutions eventually birthed the University of Cincinnati.

By embracing the 1819 charters of Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio, the University of Cincinnati shares a bicentennial with the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson.

It has now become a cliché: “I wouldn’t vote for that scoundrel if he was running for dog catcher!”If you ever hear that I am standing for election as dog-catcher, please vote for my...