Century Dispatch
May 21
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1927
A Yale Surgeon's Tribute & Mussolini's Long Shadow: Italian Bridgeport, May 1927
La sentinella = The sentinel (Bridgeport, Conn.)
1926
The Day Coolidge Tried to Save Prohibition (While Al Capone Ran a Whole Town)
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1906
When a U.S. Senator got caught taking bribes (and the Supreme Court didn't care about his excuses)
The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)
1896
Managing 'Madam Tyrant': How 1890s Women Battled Their Dressmakers (And Won)
The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)
1886
Dakota Territory Burns—Congress Won't Act, Cattle Are Dying, and a Frontier Town Is Running Out of Patience
The Warner sun (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.])
1876
Congressional Bombshell: How a Political Operative Admits to Signing Hundreds of Fake Payroll Vouchers to Buy Louisiana...
The sun (New York [N.Y.])
1866
One Year After Appomattox: How Baltimore's May 1866 Paper Reveals a Nation Rebuilding (and Still Squabbling)
Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)
1865
May 21, 1865: Jefferson Davis Behind Bars—The Rebel President's Dramatic Capture
New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])
1864
Grant vs. Lee at Spotsylvania: The Turning Point Battlefield Dispatches from May 1864
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1863
1863: When a U.S. Minister's Speech Nearly Stopped Britain from Backing the Confederacy
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1862
Richmond Panics as McClellan's Army Closes In—Confederate Treasury Already Fleeing South
New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])
1861
"Your Homes Are in Danger": Tennessee's Elite Issues Desperate Call to Arms (May 1861)
Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)
1856
Inside a Border Town's Bustling Commerce (1856): When River Trade Connected North and South
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1846
War Declared: Inside the May 1846 Battle That Would Reshape America (and Split the Nation)
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1836
1836 New Hampshire: When Orphans' Farms Were Sold, Stagecoaches Still Ruled, and the Insane Needed Asylums
New-Hampshire statesman and state journal (Concord [N.H.])

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