Ohio V. The World
Dettagli canale
Ohio V. The World
An American History podcast, hosted by Alex Hastie.
Episodi recenti
115 episodi
Public Enemies: the FBI Strikes Back (Part 2)
Episode 11: "Ohio v. Crime" (Part 2): the FBI Strikes Back. Alex concludes Season 8 with a bang, literally. The bullets are flying as the J. Edgar Hoo...
Public Enemies: The Rise of the Gangsters (Part 1)
Episode 11: "Ohio v. Crime" (Part One): The Rise of the Gangsters. In Part 1 of the Season 8 finale, Alex goes to back to the 1930s and the War on Cri...
Presidential Medical Secrets and the Real 1st Female President
It's Election Day and we're back with another presidential episode "Ohio v. the 25th Amendment." We look at two major presidential health emergencies...
The "Other" Assassinations: The Political Murders of Presidents Garfield and McKinley
Four American Presidents have been assassinated in office. Two of them are among the most infamous moments in US history, the Lincoln and JFK assassin...
Ohio's Last VP: Nobel Prize Winner, #1 Hit Songwriter, Gen. Charles Dawes
Our Presidential mini-season is back for 2024! We start with a bio episode on Ohio's last Vice President, General Charles G. Dawes (1925-1929), Calvin...
Bonus Episode: A CEO Roundtable on the State of Ohio History
BONUS EPISODE: A CEO Roundtable Discussion on the State of Ohio History. Alex finally ends his summer break and sits down with the leaders of the 3 le...
Ohio and Cancel Culture: A Long History
Episode 6: "Ohio v. Cancel Culture". Seems like everyone is getting cancelled these days from celebrities to political figures, Alex examines five his...
Part 2: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose
Ep. 5: "Pete Rose v. the World" (PART TWO). Alex examines the fall of baseball's all-time hits leader, Cincinnati's own Pete Rose. This two-part episo...
Part 1: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose
Ep. 5: "Pete Rose v. the World" (PART ONE). Alex tackles the life and career of baseball's all-time hits leader, Cincinnati's own Pete Rose. This two-...
A New Birth of Freedom:: John Bingham and the 14th Amendment
Episode 4: "Ohio v. the 14th Amendment" John Bingham is one of the most important figures in American history to be all but forgotten. He drafted one...
Broken Rings: Israel, Palestine and the Munich Olympic Massacre
Broken Rings: Israel, Palestine and the Munich Olympic Massacre
EPISODE 3: Ohio v. Terrorism. Alex recounts the tragedy of the 1972 Munich Massa...
The Wow! Signal: When Ohio Made First Contact
Episode 2: Ohio v. the Universe: Are we alone? We analyze the Wow! Signal, what many consider the first legitimate contact with an extraterrestrial so...
Part One: The Rise and Fall of American Fascism, A Cautionary Tale
Alex details the rise of anti-semitic and fascist groups during the Depression in America. These groups hatred of Jews, FDR and core American values s...
Part Two: The Rise and Fall of American Fascism, A Cautionary Tale
Part Two: Ohio v. Fascism. The cautionary tale of the rise and fall of American Fascism in the 1930s is explored in detail in Part Two of our Season 8...
UPDATE: Season 8 Premieres 3.19.24
We're back! Season 8 of Ohio v. the World drops on March 5, 2024. Thanks for being patient through our 2023 hiatus but Season 8 is in production and o...
Ohio's Festival Disasters: BalloonFest '86, AmeriFlora and More
FyreFest, Altamont, Woodstock '99, Astroworld are some of the biggest festival disasters in American history, today we'll look at some of the most fla...
Cassie Chadwick: The Gilded Age's Most Infamous Con Woman
In the penultimate episode of Season 7, Alex travels back to the Gilded Age to uncover the forgotten story of the greatest con woman of the era, Cleve...
John Spano: The Greatest Con Man On Ice
Alex tells the story of John Spano, the con man who managed to buy a National Hockey League team despite having almost no money. Spano's ill-fated pur...
Thomas Edison's Brilliant Life, Told In Reverse
Alex finally gets around to telling the story of the most famous Ohioan, Thomas Alva Edison. We sit down with the leading Edison scholars to discuss h...
Mary Church Terrell: A Life of Activism from Emancipation to Desegregation
Mary Church Terrell was born in 1863 the year of the Emancipation Proclamation and died months after the landmark Brown v. the Board of Education Supr...
Battle of Midway: Epic Turning Point and Ohio's Unsung Hero of WWII
We're back from summer break for the 2nd half of Season 7! We're locked and loaded over the skies of Midway Island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean...
The Polio Crusade: How America Learned to Love Vaccines
Alex dives into the biggest medical experiment of the 20th Century: the development of the polio vaccines and the story of rivalry between its creator...
Lincoln's Rival: The Amazing Life of Salmon P. Chase
An episode we've been waiting to do for a long while, Alex examines the consequential life of Cincinnati's own, Salmon P. Chase. Chase, the namesake f...
Bonus Episode: PROHFILES Season 2 Preview "the Wrath of the Buzzard"
Friend of the show, Vince Tornero, joins the show to preview the 2nd Season of his Evergreen Podcast Network show PROHFILES: "The Wrath of the Buzzard...
When Beatlemania Took Over America and Ohio
When the Beatles arrived on US soil in February 1964 the music world and social norms in this country changed forever. And nowhere did Beatlemania hav...
Operation Just Cause: An Oral History of the U.S.-Panama War
In 1989, the United States went to war with Panama and their military dictator, Manuel Noriega in what is called Operation Just Cause. In "Ohio v. Pan...
Sleeper Agent: the Manhattan Project Spy That Got Away
In the Season 7 premiere episode, Alex tells the story of George Koval, the Manhattan Project spy that got away. We’re joined by author Ann Hagedorn t...
Ten Cent Beer Night: An Oral History
It's the Season 6 Finale and we saved our best for last. Powered by interviews from a proposed documentary we give an oral history of the infamous Ten...
Reconstruction and the KKK: Ohio v. Terror
In the penultimate episode of Season 6 Alex dives into the history of America's First War on Terror against a new white supremacist group, the Ku Klux...
America's Most Forgotten War: Ohio v. Empire
In the wake of the chaotic end to the War in Afghanistan, Alex & Co. revisit America's first Asian counterinsurgency war, the Philippine-American War...
Henry Flagler: The Ohioan Who Built Florida (Ohio v. the Sunshine State)
Alex travels to the Sunshine State to discover the story of Henry Flagler, the Cleveland native, known as "the Father of Modern Florida." We analyze F...
William Morgan: The Ohioan Who Fought Alongside Castro (Part 2)
In Part 2 of a 2-part episode, Alex concludes the fascinating saga of the American Comandante, William Alexander Morgan of Toledo, Ohio and how his ce...
William Morgan: The Ohioan Who Fought Alongside Castro (Part One)
In Part 1 of a 2-part episode, Alex reveals the fascinating story of the American Comandante, William Alexander Morgan of Toledo, Ohio and how his unl...
Japanese American Incarceration in WWII: Ohio v. Incarceration
The Japanese American incarceration during World War II is a policy decision that will live in infamy. Alex analyzes why did FDR and the American gove...
Clarence Darrow: America's Greatest Lawyer
Alex tells the story of the most famous lawyer in American history, Clarence Darrow. We welcome an all-star cast of guests to discuss the sterling car...
Black Civil War Soldiers: Ohio v. Bravery
Alex speaks with four experts on the black Civil War experience from emancipation to the post-war years. We're celebrating Juneteenth with a comprehen...
The Burr Conspiracy and Axis Sally: Ohio v. Treason
Treason has been a popular topic in 2021 and Alex looks at two of the most infamous treason trials in American History w/Ohio connections: the Aaron B...
The Zanesville Zoo Escape: Ohio v. Exotic Animals
Lions, tigers and bears...oh my! Alex travels to Eastern Ohio and the city of Zanesville to tell the story of one of the craziest and most dangerous e...
The Red Scare: Ohio v. McCarthyism
In Episode 2 of Season 6, Alex analyzes the rise and fall of Senator Joseph McCarthy and McCarthyism's effect on the country and Ohio during the 2nd R...
The Challenger Disaster: Judy Resnik v. the World
We're back! In the Season 6 premiere episode Alex looks at the extraordinary life of Akron, Ohio native NASA astronaut, Judy Resnik. We analyze the ca...