On This Day: January 16 — Century Dispatch

When a 17-Year-Old Nearly Started a War (And Won $25,000): The Crisis-Filled Day Congress Lost Patience With Latin...

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

When Feds Refused to Serve Real Booze at Prohibition's 6th Birthday Party

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

The merchant prince dies: Marshall Field's $200M empire crumbles as insurance scandals rock Washington

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Balfour Backs Down: How Britain Gave America the Western Hemisphere (and Changed History)

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Maine's Deer War: When hunters burned down game wardens' homes—and other chaos from 1886

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Dancing Madness on Wall Street & Navy Yard Betrayal: January 16, 1876

The sun (New York [N.Y.])

Congress Fears Slavery's Return | New Orleans Daily Crescent, Jan. 16, 1866

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

Charleston Burning, Stuart's Raiders Strike—Inside the War on January 16, 1864

Daily State sentinel (Indianapolis, Ind.)

Two Weeks After Emancipation: How the North Turned on Lincoln (And Each Other)

Burlington free press (Burlington, Vt.)

Moses Beach Returns to Rule New York's Penny Press—The War for Readers Heats Up

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

A Southern Paper's War Cry: "We Will Unleash Privateers on Northern Commerce" — Jan. 1861

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

100 Ships, One City: New Orleans' Last Boom (Jan. 1856)

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

"Defend Them or Perish": A Western Congressman's Explosive Case for Seizing All of Oregon (1846)

The daily union (Washington [D.C.])

1836 Washington: Where Fine Wine Ads and Slave Trader Notices Shared the Same Page

Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])