On This Day: February 23 — Century Dispatch

How Coolidge Used Radio to Reinvent the Washington Birthday—Plus a Boxer Who Won a Title But Lost His Purse

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

When a 96-Year-Old Fought Fire Bare-Handed & Ford Needed 601,000 Sheep

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

When Teddy Roosevelt Personally Stopped a Cover-Up (Feb 23, 1906)

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

Inside the Spoils Machine: How Cleveland's Government Handed Out 22 Federal Jobs in One Day

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Inside Augusta's 1876 Marketplace: French Dry Cleaners, Oyster Bars & a Revolver for Every Worry

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Love Notes & Lawsuits: New Orleans Courts Overflow One Year After the War

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

How Lincoln's Draft Law Made the Rich Buy Their Way Out of War—and Sparked a Class Revolt

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Memphis, 1863: Confederate Congress Debates Seals While Vicksburg Burns

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Nashville Falls: Confederate Collapse in the West & Jefferson Davis Calls Day of Prayer (Feb. 23, 1862)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

How America Was Literally Draining Swamps in 1856—And Why It Mattered

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

Oregon or Bust: Inside Congress's Explosive Debate Over America's Western Future (Feb. 1846)

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

Cincinnati, 1836: When a Boy Named Alfred Was Hunted and Shorthand Was Fashionable

The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)