The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from ...

Sounds like a Sixties rock and roll group. But we’re talking about the showboat BECKY THATCHER and the dreamers who kept her ...

Marietta has been spared the horrors of war. War came close when Confederate General John Hunt Morgan led 2,500 cavalry on a ...

For the third year, we present a roster of Cincinnati women trailblazers to honor during Women’s History Month.

A century ago, in 1925, the Ku Klux Klan came to Washington, D.C. The Klansmen had arrived in early August: the Kleagles and ...

But Cincinnati’s show contained one style of architecture that was as indigenous to the Ohio River Valley as the river itself: Steamboat Gothic. Best example was a fine old mansion ...

In the summer of 1987, Ohio University student Deidra Edwards moved to New Orleans for a special gig: working aboard a Mississippi River steamboat as it churned between New Orleans and Minneapolis.

The first president realized that working with Congress – not alone or against it – was the best way to actually create an ...

Churchill Downs Racetrack might be the expert on racing horses at the Kentucky Derby, but the Kentucky Derby Festival races everything from people to beds and steamboats. And it keeps growing.

Could the body of an unfortunate ship's clerk lie buried in a murky vault beneath the Ohio River? If the full tale of the ...

The county was named for Elmer Scipio Dundy who was born in Ohio in 1830, and taught school in Pennsylvania while studying law. Admitted to the bar in 1853, Dundy arrived in Nebraska by steamboat and ...