On This Day: June 18 — Century Dispatch

Lindbergh's Hero's Welcome—Plus the English Sparrow That Totaled Three Cars

The West Virginia news (Ronceverte, W. Va.)

The $1,000 Spelling Bee, Black Hand Lollypops & A Bootlegger's Last Stand

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Three shootings in one night rock Alabama mining town as steel boom reshapes the South

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

When Congress Abandoned Their Desks to Rush to the Convention (1896)

Turner County herald (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.])

A Scottish Invasion, a Lynching, and the Birth of Beef Country: South Omaha, June 1886

South Omaha stockman (South Omaha, Neb.)

1876: The Day Jerome Park Was So Crowded That Millionaires and Lords Fought in the Dust

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

One Year After Appomattox: Republicans Rally in Maine—and Merchants Sell Fireworks to Boys

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

June 1865: Explosive evidence against Jeff Davis emerges as defiant Confederate VP demands his 'rights'

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Grant's Daring River Crossing: The Maneuver That Started the End of the War

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Robert Browning Backs the Union: A Poet's Wartime Letter from London (1863)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

The Hidden War Economy: Inside a Confederate Town's Desperate Hustle (June 1862)

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

June 1861: Evansville Merchants Advertise Boots & Bullets as the Civil War Begins

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

How 40 Ships a Week Left New Orleans in 1856—and Where They All Went

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

Ohio Rep Defends State Against 'Atrocious' Antislavery Colleagues as War Tears Nation Apart (May 1846)

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

Inside the Navy Yard's Shopping List: How 1836 America Built Its Arsenal (and Bought Its Slaves)

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