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1927
What Americans Got Dangerously Wrong About China (And It Cost Them Everything)
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
When Car Radiators Froze in April & Polish Veterans Shook Up City Hall
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1906
1906: Chicago's Polish Community Fights Over 50¢ Fees That Could Unite 400,000 Immigrants
Zgoda : Wydanie dla mężczyzn (Chicago, Ill.)
1896
Rabbi Walks Out Mid-Sermon Over Plagiarism Defense: A Theological War at Fifth Avenue's Temple Emanu-El
New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.])
1886
1886: Inside Cleveland's Cabinet Shuffle—And Why Arthur's Doctors Feared the Worst
The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)
1876
1876 Augusta: When Dentists Used Laughing Gas & Hair Was Big Business
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1866
One Week After Lee Surrendered, Baltimore Papers Were Already Watching Germany Prepare for War
Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)
1865
April 12, 1865: Portland paper unleashes fury on 'crocodile tears' Britain
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1864
A Lamb Within a Lamb: Inside April 1864's Strangest Medical Mystery (Plus Civil War Updates from the Front)
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1863
When Six Tribes Came to Barnum's Museum: How Lincoln's Indian Delegates Amazed New York (April 1863)
Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1862
April 1862: A Satirist's Brutal Takedown of the Union Army's Chaotic Manassas Campaign
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1861
The Day the War Began (But Nobody Told Rockville Yet)
Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)
1856
April 1856: When a D.C. Newspaper Auctioned Off 200 Enslaved People and Nobody Blinked
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
1846 New York: When Harlem Was Suburbs and Hoboken Was the Future
The New York herald (New York [N.Y.])
1836
Virginia's Planter Elite at Play: Inside the High-Stakes Horse Racing Season of 1836
Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)
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