How a Guitar & Mouth Organ Nearly Freed Death Row Inmates—Plus Ford's $1M Day of Reckoning Arrives

When 5,000 strikers marched for $22/week wages and clam diggers threatened chowder famine

Susan B. Anthony dies as Maine cities vote for change — March 13, 1906

War with Spain Coming? Russia Eyes Korea—and Princeton Students Burn the Spanish King in Effigy (March 13, 1896)

A Senator's Funeral and Cleveland's Patronage War: Inside Washington on March 13, 1886

1876 Maine Newspaper: When Hair Restorer Was Hot, Horses Got Better, and Yarn Cost 4 Cents

Canada Mobilizes Against Irish Raiders—and Baltimore's Commercial Life Booms On (March 13, 1866)

March 1865: Confederates arm enslaved people as rebellion collapses

Grant Takes Over, Refugees Flee, And One Chicago Bridge Changes Lives—March 1864

Inside Grant's Vicksburg Swamp: A Fake Gunboat, A Flooded Army, and a Letter That Might Save a Soldier (March 13, 1863)

Ironclad Revolution: When the CSS Merrimack Changed Naval Warfare Forever (March 13, 1862)

Maryland on the Brink: Why Gov. Hicks's Refusal to Call a Convention Might Have Saved the Union (March 13, 1861)

March 1856: When Indiana Fought Over Immigration, Slavery, and Yellow Fever—and the Union Began to Crack

Should America Risk War Over Oregon? A South Carolina congressman says no—and he's about to be wrong