On This Day: September 17 — Century Dispatch

Highway Dreams & Embezzlement Trials: Las Vegas Scrambles for the Dam Era (Sept. 17, 1927)

Las Vegas age (Las Vegas, Nev.)

1926: White gang uses blackface to frame Black men for crimes they committed

The monitor (Omaha, Neb.)

1906: Balloon-jumping monkeys and $1,000 horse races at New Mexico's wildest territorial fair

Albuquerque evening citizen (Albuquerque, N.M.)

A Farmer's Daughter, a Drunkard's Redemption, and a Mortgage Burned in the Fireplace (1896)

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

160 Tourists in One Day, 6,293 Feet Up: Inside America's Most Exclusive Daily Newspaper (1886)

Among the clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.)

Tweed, Tilden, and Murder in Utah: How 1876 America Exposed Its Deepest Sins

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

The Johnstown Bridge Collapse & 5 Other Disasters That Rattled America on Sept. 17, 1866

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

🚢 1865: Napoleon's Secret Mexican Army & Midnight Irish Rebels

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

A Newspaper Questions Democracy Itself—In the Middle of the Civil War (And It Sounds Eerily Modern)

National democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

Fort Sumter's Assault: How the Union Tried to Storm the War's Most Symbolic Prize

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

Blood on the Potomac: How Portland Mobilized While Antietam Raged (September 17, 1862)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Inside Berdan's Sharpshooters: How the Union's Deadliest Marksmen Were Born (Sept. 17, 1861)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The South's Last Dream: $300,000 in Slave-Built Railroads (Sept. 1856)

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

A Queen Paints & Goya Steals the Show: 1846 Madrid's Greatest Art Exhibition, as Reported in Puerto Rico

Gazeta de Puerto-Rico (San Juan, P.R.)

From French War Debts to Steamboat Schedules: How Washington Built America in 1836

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