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Southwest Ohio has an incredible history. Richard H. Grant Sr. of Centerville was as influential as better-known Daytonians like Charles Kettering and John Patterson.
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This former US Marshall was America's leading Nazi hunter back in the 1980s when there were still a few of them around to pursue. Hear John Pascucci's incredible story.
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Black Korean War veteran Joe Lewis stood up to a racist bus driver in the Jim Crow South when he was working at Keesler Air Force Base in the 50s in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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In this episode of WYSO's Think Twice podcast, University of Dayton professor Bill Trollinger says the Christian Nationalist hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, terrorized Black, Catholic, and Jewish people in the 1920s.
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Historic interpreter Talon Silverhorn, of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, spoke about Tecumseh’s legacy and invited Ohioans to rebuild authentic relationships with Shawnee people.
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The Ohio Country is a 12-episode podcast from the public media station WYSO about American Indian people reconnecting with their homelands in the Ohio River Valley.
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Greene County archivists revealed the contents of a time capsule recovered from the cornerstone of the former Greeneview South School in Jefferson Township. The school is set to be demolished later this year.
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Fifty years ago at Marsh’s grocery store in Troy, a multi-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum became the first retail item scanned with a Universal Product Code, or UPC as we know them.
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Lloyd Edwin was a freshman at Central State from Brooklyn when the tornado hit in 1974.
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John Gudgel, a high schooler in Yellow Springs when the tornado hit, waited for his mom to return home from work in Wilberforce for hours on April 3, 1974.
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The photos come from the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce community scanning day event, where staff digitized images of the area from before, during, and after the disaster.
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A new history exhibit attempts to shed light on the complicated story for tribal communities following a battle that took place here over two centuries ago.