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1927
Marines on Standby for China, High School Basketball Team Implodes, and a 98-Year-Old Gets a Bob—Jan. 19, 1927
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
Stalin Purges Lenin's Old Guard While Bandits Hunt Jewish Milkmen in NYC
Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)
1906
1906: War Dept. Admits America Can't Move Its Own Army
The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)
1896
Spain's New Butcher in Cuba—and Why Americans Are Furious (January 19, 1896)
The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)
1886
Land Rush in the Capital: Inside Sacramento's Agricultural Boom of 1886
Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])
1876
Tea Wars & Dancing Masters: What Wilmington Was Selling in 1876
The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)
1866
Widows, Orphans & Debts: What Maine's Probate Courts Reveal About Life After the Civil War
The Union and journal (Biddeford, Me.)
1865
The Final Letter: A Founding Father's Last Words & A Wife's Secret Theater Adventure
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1864
The Day the Confederacy Admitted It Was Losing Control—Rogue Soldiers, Fleeing Planters, and Holland's Last Chance
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1863
The Galveston Disaster: How Confederates Pulled Off Their Boldest Naval Victory—And Blew Up a Flagship in the Process
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1862
Memphis, Jan. 1862: Buying Fruit Trees & Selling Slaves as the War Closes In
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1861
One Month Before Lincoln: How a New York Newspaper Masked Its Terror in Starlight and Hair Dye
New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1856
Inside a Doomed Newspaper: How Democrats Fought for the Soul of America in 1856—One Month Before 'Bleeding Kansas'
Washington sentinel (City of Washington [D.C.])
1846
How America Slept in 1846: A Crusade Against Filthy Bedrooms and Bad Diet
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1836
1836 Cincinnati: Real Estate Speculation, Patent Medicine Wars & Why This River City Was America's Next Boom Town
The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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