On This Day: February 11 — Century Dispatch

How Coolidge's Navy Gamble Could Have Changed Everything (If It Hadn't Failed)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The Family That Chose Death Over Shame (and Edison's 79th Birthday Questions)

The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel (Cordele, Georgia)

The $7.5M warship that made every navy obsolete + a deadly train robbery in New Hampshire

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

Wife Elopes with Boarder, Pension Slashed, Courthouse Opens: Maine's 1896 Reckoning

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Mark Twain Goes to War With Namby-Pamby Parenting (and Admits Publishing Without His Wife's Permission)

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

Congressman Blaine Explodes on Democrats' Currency Flip-Flop: How Maine's Political Giant Weaponized Wartime Hypocrisy

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Mississippi Reels From Reconstruction: A Newspaper Pleads for Restraint (While Bodies Go Unburied)

The daily clarion (Meridian, Miss.)

The Day Peace Died: Lincoln's Complete Account of the Failed Confederate Negotiations

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Two Ships Lost, One Victory Claimed: How Chaos at Sea Exposed Cracks in the Union Blockade—Feb. 11, 1863

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

Inside the Crescent City at War: Bounties, Deserters & the Last Days Before Union Occupation

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

Feb. 11, 1861: A Farmer Forces His Daughter's Suitor to Win Her Through Combat—While the Nation Teeters on War's Edge

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1856: When Millstone Patents and Swampland Were Government Business—Plus, the Real Estate Boom That Built Washington

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

War or Law? Congress Debates Whether America Can Break Its Treaty to Claim Oregon (1846)

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

Emperor of Morocco's Gift Horse Now Breeding in Virginia—Plus the Fire That Destroyed NYC Merchants' Records

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)