On This Day: March 11 — Century Dispatch

A 17-Year-Old's Fraudulent Marriage, Aluminum Cookware, and a Detective Story: Inside a 1927 Maryland Weekly

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

1926: When Boone fought for Prohibition and Florida had a town called 'Spud'

Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)

1906: When finding love meant placing a newspaper ad (and hoping for the best)

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

Louisiana Rewrites Its Rulebook: What These 1896 Constitutional Changes Reveal About the Post-War South

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

Why a Freedmen's Bureau Hero Got Blocked From Army Command—Inside Washington's 1886 Promotion Wars

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Inside an 1876 Maine Newspaper: Penny Stocks for Your Hair, Miracle Horse Cures & the Birth of Consumer Credit

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

"The Union Can Never Be Dissolved"—A General's Fiery Defense of Johnson Against the Radical Republicans (March 1866)

The Nashville daily union (Nashville, Tenn.)

1865: When a Civil War bride dressed as a soldier and charged into battle

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Paper Shortages & Panic: How a Confederate Newspaper Reported Its Own Side's Collapse (March 1864)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

A Rebel Victory on the Mississippi: How Converted Steamboats Captured a Union Ironclad (March 1863)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

When Patent Medicine Cured Everything (and War Prices Made Cigars Cheap): March 1862

The national Republican (Washington, D.C.)

ONE MONTH BEFORE FORT SUMTER: Lincoln's Gamble As the Union Crumbles Around Him

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Steamships to San Francisco, Slaves at Half Price: New Orleans' Last Prosperous Year (1856)

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

1846 Providence: When Dentists Guaranteed Painless Toothaches (Sort Of)

Republican herald (Providence [R.I.])

Inside a 1836 Washington Newspaper: Steamboats, Slavery Auctions, and America's Industrial Race

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