On This Day: January 22 — Century Dispatch

Gunfire on the Rio Grande: How Prohibition Wars Nearly Killed a Texas Border Patrol Officer

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

When ghost stories made front page news in 1926 Maryland

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

The 50-Cent Bank Heist That Left $173,000 Behind

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

1896 Louisiana: How a Parish Bet Ten Years of Taxes on a Railroad Dream

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

Inside the 1886 Department Store Wars: How Woodward & Lothrop Invented the Money-Back Guarantee

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Eight Months After Lee's Surrender: A Treasury Secretary, a Poisoner, and America's Scramble to Rebuild

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

January 1865: Knife Fight in DC & Sherman's Army on the March

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

When Pennsylvania Nearly Refused Union Currency: A Governor's Impossible Choice (Jan. 1864)

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

A Tiny Iowa Newspaper Made a Bold Stand for Freedom—in January 1863

Charles City Republican intelligencer (Charles City, Iowa)

Tobacco, Coal Oil, and the Art of War: How One Indiana Town Kept Selling While America Bled

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

Four Days Before the Secession Vote: Richmond's Last Normal Newspaper

Richmond daily Whig (Richmond, Va.)

Inside the Port That Built the South: A Day in 1856's Shipping Chaos

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

War Drums Over Oregon: How Congress Nearly Fought Britain (Then Backed Down)

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

A Dying Woman's Final Letter to Her Love: What 1836 Read When Facing Death

Burlington free press (Burlington, Vt.)