On This Day: April 16 — Century Dispatch

Gun Permits, Segregated Pools & Bribed Cops: Inside Cleveland's Hidden Racial Battle (April 1927)

The gazette (Cleveland, Ohio)

1926: When Justice Wore Two Faces—The Trial That Exposed America's Racial Double Standard

The monitor (Omaha, Neb.)

📰 April 16, 1906: Teen's Tragic Love Letter & Missouri's Deadly Mob Violence

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

1896: Steel Rails for Horse Roads & the Great Bicycle War—Plus Why Venezuelan Chocolate Cost $1,100 a Bag

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

When the U.S. Government Caught a Nationwide Charity Scam (1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Brazil's Emperor Crashes America's Party: How Grant's Cabinet Bungled a Royal Visit (1876)

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

One Year After Lincoln: Congress Rewrites the Constitution While the South Burns

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 16, 1865: Lincoln's Last Autograph and a Nation in Shock

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

War Crimes in Ohio? Confederate Paper Accuses Union of Torture—April 1864

National democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

Inside Lincoln's War Machine: How Washington Bought 600 Iron Beams & 300 Telescopes to Win the Civil War

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Shiloh's Shocking Toll: How Editors Underestimated the War's Bloodiest Day—and Why It Still Mattered

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

April 16, 1861: Richmond's Merchants Sell Spring Hats While America Burns (3 Days Into the Civil War)

Richmond daily Whig (Richmond, Va.)

Cotton, Ships, and the South's Last Prosperous Spring: Inside New Orleans' April 1856

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

1846: The Speech That Almost Fixed American Money (Before Everything Fell Apart)

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

Texas Declares Independence: The Full Declaration That Changed America's Destiny

New-Hampshire statesman and state journal (Concord [N.H.])