The Last Global Pandemic: “Spanish” flu, 1918-1919
…10 cases of ordinary flu, “nothing more than the old-fashioned grip. No laboratory test have been made … Influenza is common at this time of the year, and the number… Continue Reading
Walnut Hills Historical Society
stories and images from Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
…10 cases of ordinary flu, “nothing more than the old-fashioned grip. No laboratory test have been made … Influenza is common at this time of the year, and the number… Continue Reading
…It at once provided the African American community with library services, and discouraged that community’s use of the nearby Walnut Hills Public Library opened in 1906. The Douglass second floor… Continue Reading
…commentaries of the Talmud, and emerging German linguistic and historical criticism of scripture. It is not completely surprising that Hebrew Union, the center of Reform Judaism in America, embraced a… Continue Reading
…he would exhibit a life-long loyalty to the aim of the Civil War, to end slavery and to extend equal rights to free and freed African Americans. After a late… Continue Reading
…house, offered some free lectures and religious films – perhaps to make the Black Middle Class comfortable in the building. That was positive for the neighborhood, to be sure, but… Continue Reading
…basin. Yet the established community in Mt. Auburn, and the scattered residents of Walnut Hills south of McMillan Street around the Episcopal Church of the Advent and the original Catholic… Continue Reading
…Montfort and Preston. Click here to open the map on your phone or tablet. Or use the website map below to learn more. Click on the small square at the… Continue Reading
…his own crews to complete the fabrication. Despite the expense and the delays and the resentments, Scowden’s engines performed admirably from the time of their first test in 1874 through… Continue Reading
…along the street. In 1929, other changes were in the air. On opposite sides of the new stretch of Madison we see the construction of self-consciously modern (even Moderne) buildings…. Continue Reading
…docked at the Cincinnati landing in 1845, established the principle that an enslaved person brought by their enslaver to the free state of Ohio became free. Fountain Lewis was a… Continue Reading