On This Day: June 21 — Century Dispatch

A Baby in a Suitcase, a General's Trophy, and the Day a Mother Lost Everything in New Britain

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

When Schools Begged Parents to Complain & Chicago Bootleg Turned Deadly

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

When Half the Class Dropped Out: A Small-Town Graduation in 1906 Maine

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

When Vice Presidents Drew Crowds: The 1896 Election and Democracy's Last Free Silver Battle

New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.])

President Signs Bridge Bill While Army Marches to Gettysburg—20 Years After the Battle

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Horse breeding, arson rewards & the dentist with 'painless gas': Inside a Maine newspaper's centennial year

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Fire, Blood, and Bail: New Orleans on the Knife's Edge of Reconstruction (June 21, 1866)

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

1865: 'No such word ever came' — Why Maine blamed Robert E. Lee for prison horrors

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Springfield's Secret: 265,000 Muskets & Lincoln's Bold Move on Slavery (June 1864)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Black Soldiers Hold the Line as Lee Invades the North (June 1863)

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

Richmond Within Reach: McClellan's Grand Offensive & the Railroad That Could Remake America

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

Flags & Fighting: A New Orleans Paper Celebrates the Confederacy (Just Months Before War)

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

A Spanish Commandant's Ghost: When California's Old Aristocracy Fought American Courts (1856)

The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)

When Doctors Killed More Than They Cured: A Furious 1846 Newspaper Takes On the Medical Establishment

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

Patent Medicine & Banking Secrets: What Cincinnati's 1836 Front Page Reveals About Pre-Panic America

The Daily Cincinnati Republican, and commercial register (Cincinnati, Ohio)