On This Day: June 12 — Century Dispatch

Lindbergh Gets 21 Guns & a Peace Treaty—Washington Bets the Farm on Aviation's Future

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

When the 'Liberal' Spent $195K to Buy an Election (Sound Familiar?)

The daily worker (Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y.)

1906: College cheers, deadly tenement fires, and a $3,000 insurance mystery

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Fish from the Sky, Edison's New Light, and a Potato Monopoly: June 1896's Strangest News

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

Cleveland vs. Congress: A President's Frustration Boils Over—Plus a Bishop's $500,000 Legacy

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Arkansas Democrats Rally for Tilden: Inside the 1876 Convention That Preceded the Disputed Election

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

Fistfights, Fires & Freed Slaves: New Orleans One Year After the War

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

June 1865: A Boston streetcar lesson in grace (and the marriage that ended over real estate)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

A Woman's Bonnet Starts a War Within the War: New Orleans Under Butler, June 1862

Arkansas true Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

When Shreveport Still Shopped for French Silks: A City on the Brink of War, June 1861

The south-western (Shreveport, La.)

When New Orleans Ruled America: A Glimpse of 1856's Wealthiest City—Before It All Burned

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

General Taylor's Mexico Victory Dispatches—And the Religious Schism Tearing America Apart (June 12, 1846)

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)