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Episode 5: “Ohio v. the Cold War” (Curtis Lemay) Alex welcomes back Bruce Carlson, podcast host of “My History Can Beat Up Your Politics” (https://myhistorycanbeatupyourpolitics.wordpress.com/). 

Alex and Bruce travel through the first 25 years of the Cold War by chronicling the life of General Curtis E. Lemay from Columbus, Ohio. Lemay’s career was in the front row for Pearl Harbor, WWII in Europe, the firebombing of Tokyo, the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, the Berlin Airlift, the formation of the Air Force and Strategic Air Command, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the infamous U.S. election of 1968.  We look at why “Bombs Away” Lemay’s celebrated life of service and militarism was overshadowed by the unforgivable decision to be the VP candidate for Gov. George Wallace’s ’68 presidential run. 

Alex sits down with Megan Wood, Director of Museum and Library Services at the Ohio History Connection, to discuss the unveiling of the original Ohio Constitution at the Ohio Statehouse this week. (36:20) http://www.dispatch.com/news/20181128/history-lesson-ohio-constitution-now-on-display-at-statehouse?rssfeed=true

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Episode 4: Ohio v. Civil War (Edwin Stanton). Alex speaks with author Walter Stahr (www.walterstahr.com) about his acclaimed 2017 book Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary and the life of Stubenville, Ohio’s Edwin Stanton. Stanton, was the Secretary of War during the U.S. Civil War and a member of President Abraham Lincoln’s “Team of Rivals.” Stahr walks us through Stanton’s rise from a poor teen in Eastern Ohio to the savior of the Union Army. We look at his rapid rise as a lawyer in the Buckeye State to become Attorney General of the US under President Buchanan. 

Cliff Eckle from the Ohio History Connection joins us to talk about the extensive collections at the Ohio History Center and Stanton’s transformative years at the War Department. (28:00) Don’t forget to donate to the Ohio History Connection on Giving Tuesday, November 27th, click on www.ohiohistory.org to give!  Join us as we see the Civil War through the eyes of the workaholic Stanton and we’re bedside for the tragic death of President Lincoln. Walter Stahr guides us through the famous manhunt for Lincoln’s killer and his co-conspirators and why Secretary Stanton was the cause of the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. Buy Walter Stahr’s book for the holidays (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MQFGW3M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1 ). 

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“For the past 10 years or so, the new player on the scene is the podcast — online, on demand and as specialized as you could want. Alex Hastie is an attorney and the managing partner of Hastie Legal. He’s active in numerous community organizations and projects and he’s a historian. Hastie is also on the board of trustees with the Ohio History Connection (formerly the Ohio Historical Society). His popular Ohio history podcast is “Ohio v. the World.”

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Episode 3: Ohio v. Black Power (Carl Stokes/Glenville Shootout). Alex travels to the Land to meet with historian/author Jim Robenalt about his awesome book Ballots and Bullets (www.amazon.com/dp/B075TH4YNT/ref…oding=UTF8&btkr=1). We discuss Jim’s book and how Cleveland became the center of the civil rights movement in the North.

We journey through the 1960s in Cleveland, including: the Hough Rebellion, Martin Luther King, Jr., the election of Carl Stokes and the deadly Glenville Shootout in July 1968. We see the impact of Malcolm X, MLK, RFK, Hubert Humphrey, Richard Nixon and Carl Stokes on black power politics. Alex and Jim discuss the historic election of Carl Stokes as Mayor of Cleveland in 1967, the first African American mayor of a major American city as an example of the ballot. And Fred Ahmed Evans and his fellow black nationalists as they opened fire on police in Glenville as an example of the bullet.

We journey through 50 years of race relations and “progress” towards solving the issue of race and poverty in the United States,. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it…

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Episode 2: “Ohio v. Bootlegging” (George Remus) Alex travels to Cincinnati to meet with 3 historians from the Price Hill Historical Society about the “King of the Bootleggers”, George Remus. We follow his rise from a German immigrant to a high-powered lawyer in Chicago to becoming the most successful bootlegger of the Prohibition Era in the United States. We discuss 1920s Cincinnati, Remus’ business, life, love and ultimate fall with Joyce Meyer, Julie Hotchkiss and Mark Plageman.

We also travel to Municipal Brew Works in downtown Hamilton, Ohio to try some great beers with owner Jim Goodman and we discuss not just their brewery but also the effect of prohibition on Hamilton, OH. (22:00) https://www.facebook.com/municipalbrewworks/ Our Ohio History Connection Minute features Stephen George, Special Advisor to the CEO. Mr. George talks about his central role in the bicentennial barn project in all 88 Ohio counties and his admiration for the Harding Administration. Join the OHC and support Ohio’s awesome history. https://www.ohiohistory.org/join. (40:00)

Step back into the Roaring Twenties with us to discuss Remus’ rise to power and later incarceration. We detail Cincinnati’s “trial of the century” when Remus goes on trial for the murder of his wife, Imogene Holmes in 1927. We also confirm that George Remus was the motivation for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s, Jay Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby.

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Season 3, Episode 1: “Ohio v. the Moon” (Neil Armstrong). 3…2…1…liftoff to Season 3 of Ohio v. the World. We’re going on mankind’s greatest adventure from the Earth to the Moon with Wapakoneta, Ohio’s own, Neil Armstrong. Alex travels to Wapak to the Armstrong Air&Space Museum and hosts a roundtable discussion with 3 Armstrong experts. We discuss his early life in NW Ohio, his many near death experiences as an aviator/astronaut and the epic journey of Apollo 11. Kraig Noble, Brittany Venturella and Greg Brown weigh in on Neil’s amazing life from Wapakoneta’s Armstrong Air & Space Museum (www.armstrongmuseum.org).

In this week’s Ohio History Connection Minute we talk with Brittany, the Interim Director at the museum about the exciting new happenings at Armstrong Air and Space and a visit from Ryan Gosling while he was researching his role as Armstrong for the new movie, First Man. (32:00) Also, we talk with Samantha Martin from Airstream trailers in Jackson Center, OH about the Apollo 11 astronauts quarantine after the moon landing in 1969. (52:00)

Rate/review the show on iTunes, Stitcher, etc. and check out our new Twitter page @ohiovtheworld. Come celebrate the new season of Ohio v. The World at our Season 3 Launch Party on Friday Oct. 19th at the Columbus Italian Club in Columbus, OH.

Season 3 of the world’s ONLY Ohio history podcast, “Ohio v. the World” launches on October 12, 2018. Episode 1: “Ohio v. the Moon” will take a new generation through one of the most important moments in the history of mankind: Neil Armstrong’s moon landing on July 20, 1969.  Interviews for Season 3 will begin on August 1st. Shows will be released on every other Sunday this season with Episode 2 debuting on October 22nd. We’re back with 15 new episodes that will run into the Spring of 2019.

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Alex was selected for a 3-year term to serve as Trustee on the most important Board in the state dedicated to Ohio history. Read the entire press release below…

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Episode 15: “Ohio v. Punishment” (The Caning of Michael Fay) LIVE!!! It’s the Season Two finale and it’s our 1st live show. We chat with comedian Mark Lucas at the Columbus Podcast Festival live from the historic Garden Theatre. We’ll discuss the May 1994 caning of Michael Fay in Singapore for his alleged vandalism crimes. We analyze how this barbaric punishment of the 18 year-old Ohioan becomes an international diplomatic crisis. We try to figure out why the American public supported the extreme punishment of the Kettering, OH teen and why President Clinton attempted and failed to get clemency for Fay. Follow us on our new Twitter page @ohiovtheworld and stay in touch this summer by email ohiovtheworld@gmail.com, on Facebook and Instagram and we’ll see you all in October 2017 for Season 3!!!!!

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Episode 14: “Ohio v. Peace” (Dayton Peace Accords/Bosnian War) Alex tackles the complicated Bosnian War of the 1990s and the peace conference in Dayton, OH that finally brought war to an end in the former Yugoslavia. Alex is joined by OSU Professor of Eastern European history, Theodora Dragostinova, to break down how Ohio ended a war that cost the lives of over 100,000 people. We analyze the turbulent 20th century in the former Yugoslavia, ethnic cleansing and the Dayton Peace Accords at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. GIS specialist, Erick Lobao joins the show to discuss the role of digital mapping in helping the Dayton Peace Accords to cross the finish line (56:30). Only one show left in Season Two! Join us May 13th for the LIVE season finale at the Columbus Podcast Festival, buy your tickets here. www.columbuspodcastfestival.com