On This Day: January 27 — Century Dispatch

A Senator's Bombshell: Millionaires 'Wine and Dine' Tax Officials for $500K Refunds (Jan. 27, 1927)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

The Colonel Who Defied the Army (And May Have Changed Aviation Forever)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

🥶 When Alaska miners struck gold at -46°F and ate turkey dinners near the Arctic Circle

The Nome tri-weekly nugget (Nome, Alaska)

How Honolulu's Athletes Revealed a Kingdom in Transformation (1896)

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

A Danish Editor's Rage Against a King: How Nebraska Immigrants Fought Tyranny From 6,000 Miles Away

Stjernen (St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska)

When Oysters Cost 45¢ a Quart: Daily Life in 1876 Maine

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Congress Splits on Reconstruction While A Railroad Refuses to Seat Native Americans (Jan. 27, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Jan 27, 1865: Lee's Intercepted Telegram Spells Doom — 'I Must Evacuate Richmond'

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Barefoot Boys & Ironclads: What Maine Learned the Year the War Refused to End

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Inside a Vermont Paper from 1863: Prince Albert's Funeral, Rothschild's Gold Power Play & the Crisis Destroying French...

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

A City at War With Itself: Inside the New York Sun's Surprisingly Cheerful Day of Business (Jan. 27, 1862)

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

Nashville on the Edge: A City Still Selling Shoes and Whiskey as the Union Crumbles

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

A Nation Arguing with Itself: What Americans Were Debating in 1856 (Spoiler: The Second Amendment, Then Too)

New-York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])

1846: When Counterfeit Medicine Was a Capital Crime (in the Court of Public Opinion)

The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.])

1836: Washington Bids Big on a 3,000-Foot Tunnel (and Other Ambitious Schemes)

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