Greg Hand

Toward the end of the 1890s, a Cincinnati man hunting in Rio Blanco County in western Colorado captured a full-grown golden eagle. The hunter brought the giant bird back home and gave it to a friend who ran a saloon "out toward the stockyards in Cumminsville."

Cincinnati has earned its reputation as an important way station on the Underground Railroad, but we must remember that slave traffic flowed both ways at the Ohio River.

While he was living in Cincinnati, Granville T. Woods, was proclaimed "the greatest electrician in the world."

African-American travelers in the 1930s faced obstacles utterly unknown to white Americans. Basic information, or the lack of it, could mean the difference between safety and danger.

The whole flat plain of Cincinnati's "basin" was once overspread with prehistoric earthworks, including walls and mounds.

There were at least 1,300 saloons in Cincinnati in 1874.

Why did three teenage boys run away from their Cincinnati homes in 1901?

Cincinnatians who regularly joke about the East-West divide of our fair city may be amused to learn that the neighborhoods of Westwood and Clifton share a very important historical linkage. Essentially, both learned—the hard way—not to mess with Cincinnati’s Boss Cox.

The idea of a woman hunter was so unusual in 1915 that the Cincinnati Post was positively breathless in its description.

A British lord really did marry a Cincinnati heiress to resolve his family's financial problems. From there, however, reality intervened.