Century Dispatch
March 18
14 years of headlines
1927
The Millionaire Kid's Buried Treasure & Why Nobody Believes Him
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
When the President Raced Death: Coolidge's Desperate Journey to Vermont, 1926
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1906
1906: When the entire front page was basically Victorian Tinder
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1896
March 18, 1896: Maine Farmers Weigh Industrial Promise (and Baseball's Underdogs Fight Back)
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1876
Can a Wife Own Her Own Land? Arizona's Bold Answer in 1876
Arizona citizen (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.])
1866
The Day America's Irish Veterans Almost Invaded Canada: A Tense March 17, 1866
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
March 18, 1865: Nature's fury silences the war news — except from enemy papers
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
The Springfield Cartridge Massacre: How a Single Explosion Killed the Dreams of Five Young Women in Wartime America
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1863
Inside the Collapse: How One Arkansas Paper Reported Martial Law While Selling Land & Slaves
Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)
1862
Traitors and Grammar: How a Massachusetts Newspaper Explained the Civil War—and Why a Confederate Official Promoted...
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1861
Week Before Fort Sumter: Paris Warns Europe About the Cotton War About to Explode
Richmond daily Whig (Richmond, Va.)
1856
The Biggest Plantation Fire Sale in Alabama: What Bennett Delvy's 1856 Ad Reveals About the South on the Brink
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
1846: How Arkansas Debated Seizing Half a Continent (And Why It Mattered)
The Arkansas banner (Little Rock, Ark.)
1836
From Boston to New Orleans in Days: How 1836 America Built Its First National Transportation System
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])

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