Greg Hand

It was just one little Cincinnati room, but it saw a lot of history.

I was not surprised to learn that Cincinnati was the second-most profitable market for Arcadia Publishing after only Chicago.

Ella Walsh was worried about her students. Ella was a teacher at Jackson School, deep in the poorest pocket of Cincinnati’s West End and her students were distracted, lethargic and, most obviously, hungry.

Somehow, Annie Stanley’s idea became her husband’s claim to fame.

The 1916 baseball season was not the most bizarre in the history of the Cincinnati Reds. But that baseball season was rather unusual, even by Cincinnati standards.

It took a national Constitutional Amendment giving women the vote in national elections to convince Ohio voters to extend the vote to women for state and local contests.

The good news is, Cincinnati has not obliterated all of its history. Even now, some 140 years onward, you may still see about half of the "must see" tourist attractions promoted in an 1875 city guide.

They apparently had a thing for dentists.

In an age when a sample of educated Americans do not know who won the Civil War, it is unlikely that anyone in the United States today remembers the Battle of Sedan. In 1885, by contrast, there were very few people in Germanic Cincinnati who did not know about the Battle of Sedan, the turning point of the Franco-Prussian War.

"There are at least 30,000 superfluous cats in Cincinnati and 4,000,000 superfluous sparrows. Get the sparrows and the cats together and the problem is solved."