On This Day: February 20 — Century Dispatch

Warships in Shanghai, Guinea Pig Flight Surgeons, and Alabama's Clever Highway Tax Trap

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1926: Alaska fights for respect, bootleggers face justice, and radium goes missing in Seattle

The Alaska daily empire (Juneau, Alaska)

Feb 20, 1906: Mining Union Bosses Arrested for Governor's Bombing — 'Wholesale Assassinations' Plot Exposed

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1896: When a Charity Gala Became the Perfect Con—And Mrs. Wildover's Diamonds Weren't Real

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

Inside Sacramento's Rigged Political Machine: Two Letters Blow Up the Gilded Age Corruption Playbook

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])

America's Most Famous Preacher in the Hot Seat: Henry Ward Beecher's Stunning Defense (1876)

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

How Louisiana Tried to Charm President Johnson (and Failed): Inside the Desperate Diplomacy of February 1866

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

1865: Congress votes to kill state banks while debating tobacco rations for soldiers

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

The Prophet They Hated: Why New England Was Reading Theodore Parker's Life in 1864

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Spies, Napoleon's Secret War, and Lincoln's Power Grab: What One Mississippi Paper Revealed in 1863

American citizen (Canton, Miss.)

Union Breakthrough in Tennessee: 6,000 Rebels Captured, North Celebrates First Real Victory

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

A Woman's Confession, a Lawyer's Gamble, and Justice Perverted: How One Serialized Novel Captivated Washington in 1861

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

New Orleans 1856: A Bustling Port City on the Eve of Everything Changed

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

Baltimore's Militia Goes Public—City Delegates Accused of Sabotage (1846)

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

Mills, Mansions & Escape Routes: A Virginia Property Bonanza From 1836

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)