On This Day: June 28 — Century Dispatch

Eight Minutes: The Day a Navigator's Fear Stopped a Pacific Ocean Crossing

Imperial Valley press (El Centro, Calif.)

The Attorney General Who Went to a Boat Race and Never Came Back 🚣

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

391 Engineers vs 3,000 Cavalry: The Impossible Defense That Saved a Union Army

The National tribune (Washington, D.C.)

Cecil Rhodes Gets Away With It (Sort Of)—Plus: A 9-Year-Old French Prophet & Why Your Bicycle Just Changed History

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

Dead Rat Diplomacy: How a Chinese Laundry Owner Won His Day in Court (1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

A Week Before the Centennial: How Augusta, Maine Looked on June 28, 1876

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Chaos in New Orleans: One Year After the War, a State Tears Itself Apart Over Constitutional Authority

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

30,000 Candles, Russian Ice Hills, and Jefferson Davis in Chains

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

"Dust and Bullets at Cold Harbor": A Vermont Soldier's Raw Account from the Siege of Richmond

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

Lee Invades Pennsylvania: 3,000 Citizens Grab Guns as Harrisburg Braces for Battle (June 28, 1863)

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

Lincoln Quietly Recognizes Black Nations—While Congress Enshrines White-Only Juries (June 1862)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Two Months Into Civil War, Evansville Merchants Sell Silk Flagging and Maple Sugar—As If Nothing Changed

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

A Virginia Congressman's Quiet Death, and What It Says About America in 1856

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

Mexican War, Egyptian Princes & Why Queen Victoria Ghosted Paris: June 1846

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