/tags/civil-war Civil War en-US Copyright Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:58:32 GMT /podcast/oki-wanna-know/2021-08-18/oki-wanna-know-who-abandoned-fort-thomas-houses OKI Wanna Know tries to answer your offbeat questions. Wed, 18 Aug 2021 14:58:32 GMT /podcast/oki-wanna-know/2021-08-18/oki-wanna-know-who-abandoned-fort-thomas-houses Bill Rinehart /history/2021-08-18/oki-wanna-know-who-abandoned-fort-thomas-houses OKI Wanna Know tries to answer your offbeat questions. Wed, 18 Aug 2021 08:24:00 GMT /history/2021-08-18/oki-wanna-know-who-abandoned-fort-thomas-houses Bill Rinehart /history/2020-08-04/northern-kentuckys-unique-complicated-role-in-the-civil-war To American slaves, Cincinnati meant freedom.Through the Civil War, Kentucky was a slave-holding state, but during the conflict, remained within the… Tue, 04 Aug 2020 08:00:00 GMT /history/2020-08-04/northern-kentuckys-unique-complicated-role-in-the-civil-war Michael Monks /media/2020-06-11/a-new-look-at-the-roebling-suspension-bridge You can listen to my interview with author Richard Haw here. I thought I knew a lot about the Roebling Suspension Bridge. Maybe you do, too.I knew that… Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:02:25 GMT /media/2020-06-11/a-new-look-at-the-roebling-suspension-bridge John Kiesewetter /history/2017-11-07/americas-first-heroin-epidemic-a-century-ago The year was 1908 and an Ohio doctor, appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as the nation's first Opium Commissioner, warned that Americans "have… Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:00:00 GMT /history/2017-11-07/americas-first-heroin-epidemic-a-century-ago /history/2017-07-10/blurred-lines-boundaries-not-so-clear-during-civil-war Most of us today think of the Civil War in terms of clear and defined boundaries between the slave states of Kentucky and Missouri and the free states of… Mon, 10 Jul 2017 08:00:05 GMT /history/2017-07-10/blurred-lines-boundaries-not-so-clear-during-civil-war /history/2017-01-04/the-story-of-col-frank-wolford-commander-of-the-union-armys-1st-kentucky-cavalry He was a celebrated cavalry officer, nationally known and deeply respected by the soldiers who served under him, and rival of Confederate raider John Hunt… Wed, 04 Jan 2017 09:00:00 GMT /history/2017-01-04/the-story-of-col-frank-wolford-commander-of-the-union-armys-1st-kentucky-cavalry /local-news/2015-04-27/the-sultana-disaster-on-the-mississippi-150-years-ago-took-its-toll-on-cincinnati As Cincinnati slept in the early morning hours of April 27, 1865, the SS Sultana, a steamboat that had been built in the shipyards here two years before,… Mon, 27 Apr 2015 08:00:00 GMT /local-news/2015-04-27/the-sultana-disaster-on-the-mississippi-150-years-ago-took-its-toll-on-cincinnati Howard Wilkinson /local-news/2015-04-14/museum-center-moves-rare-cannon-for-new-exhibit Rearranging historical artifacts is nothing new at the Cincinnati Museum Center. Temporary exhibits come and go. But rarely is the move a big production… Tue, 14 Apr 2015 18:55:49 GMT /local-news/2015-04-14/museum-center-moves-rare-cannon-for-new-exhibit Bill Rinehart /local-news/2015-04-09/bells-peal-to-commemorate-anniversary-of-civil-wars-end Visitors at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center rang bells Thursday afternoon marking the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War.… Thu, 09 Apr 2015 20:06:26 GMT /local-news/2015-04-09/bells-peal-to-commemorate-anniversary-of-civil-wars-end Tana Weingartner