History

Historical Ohio: Levi Tucker Scofield

Host Ron Luce talks with local stargazer and historian Tom O’Grady about the architect of the “Athens Lunatic Asylum”, Levi Tucker Scofield

Joan Butcher presents the inaugural episode of The WOUB Oral History Project with special guests John Ray and Carol Ford

Hosts Jim Fuller and Bill Walker discuss Civil War history pertaining specifically to December, 1862

Host Ron Luce talks with Athens attorney Bob Toy about the War of 1812 and the role Ohio history played throughout the war

Hosts Jim Fuller and Bill Walker discuss Civil War history pertaining specifically to November, 1862

Host Ron Luce talks with George Eberts of the Athens Mental Health Center about the history of the Athens Lunatic Asylum

Doug McCabe talks with Honors Tutorial College junior Eric Burke about techniques used in tracing genealogy

Host Doug McCabe talks with Victoria Ryan-Bida about her father Cornelius Ryan, the famous war historian and author

Host Jackie Wolf talks with director Ethan Bensinger about his new film that tells the tale of The Selfhelp Home in Chicago

Ron Luce talks with author and local historian Cyrus Moore III about his research into the historical buildings in uptown Athens