Century Dispatch
September 11
14 years of headlines
1927
Pershing Sails to Paris: When American Legion Reunions Made Front-Page News (And One Georgia Teen's Tragedy Went...
The Cordele dispatch (Cordele, Georgia)
1926
1926: When West Virginia Threatened to Resume Civil War Gunpowder Production Over a Tourism Dispute
The West Virginia news (Ronceverte, W. Va.)
1906
The day a trotting ostrich came to Kansas (plus Maine's shocking election upset)
The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)
1896
A Disgraced Priest, a Golden-Framed Papal Blessing, and 1890s America's Church-vs-State Panic
The American (Omaha, Nebraska)
1886
A Preacher's Tribute to His Friend—a Gun-Slinging Whiskey Merchant in 1880s Arizona
Lake Charles commercial (Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, La.)
1876
Augusta's Marketplace, 1876: When Fresh Halibut Cost a Dime and Patent Medicines Promised Everything
Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)
1866
Democracy in Collapse: The Day Andrew Johnson's Presidency Died in Front of Crowds (Sept. 11, 1866)
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1865
1865: War crimes trial exposes Confederate horrors while new rebellion brews in Georgia
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1864
Rebels Are Betting Everything on McClellan—And the Chicago Tribune Is Furious About It
Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)
1863
Exclusive: What Ex-President Buchanan Really Said About the War (And Why It Matters Now)
The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)
1862
"Twenty Million Americans" Demand Lincoln Abolish Slavery—His Answer Changes Everything
White Cloud Kansas chief (White Cloud, Kan.)
1861
While the Civil War Raged, Evansville's Merchants Sold Rat Traps: A Forgotten Front Page from September 1861
The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])
1856
$330,000 to Blast Open the Mississippi: When America Bet Big on Infrastructure
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1846
1846: How a General Impressed the Duke of Wellington (and What a Picnic Tells Us About Pre-War America)
American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

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