On This Day: April 26 — Century Dispatch

150,000 Homeless and a Cruel Choice: Should America Sacrifice a City or a Region? (April 26, 1927)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1926: When Europe Begged for Economic Unity & Indiana Debated Who Deserves Children

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

1906: Bank President Steals Life Savings, Flees to Arizona, Then Walks Free

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

EXCLUSIVE: Secret Treaty Reveals Russia's Master Plan to Divvy Up China—and Britain Is Furious

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

1886 New Haven: When One Store's 'Going Out of Business' Sale Promised to Cure Your Epilepsy

Morning journal and courier (New Haven [Conn.])

A Medical Student's Desperation: Love, Hunger & Serialized Drama on the Dakota Frontier (1876)

Lincoln County advocate (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])

Cholera, Vigilante Justice, and Nitroglycerin in Court: What America Looked Like One Year After the Civil War

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

When Booth predicted Lincoln's death 10 months early (and other chilling details from 1865)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 1864: While Soldiers Died, Portland Debated Wallpaper & Temperance Tales

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

How Democrats & Republicans Fought Over War Spending (While America Burned): 1863 Political Catechisms Unveiled

Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])

April 1862: Union Armies Close the Vise—Richmond Under Siege From Four Directions

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

Maryland's First Blood: When Union Troops Marched Through Baltimore and America's Civil War Turned Violent (April 19,...

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

A Planter's Dream Auction: How One Alabama Millionaire Sold an Empire in 1856

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

Slush Funds, Drunken Senators & Dying Bureaucrats: Inside the Tyler Administration's Corruption Scandal

Sunday dispatch (New York [N.Y.])

Dreams of Rails and Banks: Virginia's Last Gilded Moment (1836)

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)