On This Day: April 21 — Century Dispatch

Days Before Sacco-Vanzetti: Springfield Debates Justice, Immigration, and Whether to Name a Warship After 1860s Heroes

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

The Prohibition Official Drawing Two Paychecks (and a Future Queen is Born)

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

When Arctic Alaska Rushed to Save San Francisco: $8,000 Raised in Remote Nome

The Nome tri-weekly nugget (Nome, Alaska)

Methodist Bishops, Exhausted Lumber Kings, and Baseball Boys: Spring 1896 in Maine

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Was a Federal Collector Punished for Treating Chinese Diplomats Fairly? His Bosses Just Weighed In

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

How an 1872 Law Still Controls Your Land—Arizona's Mining Blueprint, Then and Now

Arizona weekly miner (Prescott, Ariz.)

April 1866: How America Shielded War Crimes, Lost Oil Tanks to Mob Fire, and Braced for Irish Invasion

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

The $10 Fake News Story That Killed a Civil War Sister

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

700 French Ministers Just Declared War on the Confederacy—From Their Pulpits

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

April 1862: While the Civil War Raged, Minnesota Settlers Fought to Grow Apples

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Half a Million New Yorkers Marched for War—What They Were Really Saying (April 21, 1861)

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

Inside a Frontier Riverport's Beating Heart: Keokuk's Secret Network of Eastern Merchants & Ambitious Lawyers (1856)

The daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)

April 1846: A Penny for Your Temperance—Washington's Boldest Reformers Launch a Printing Revolution

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

Washington's Slave Traders, Life Insurance Pioneers, and Fish Docks: April 1836's Unvarnished Capital

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