On This Day: October 21 — Century Dispatch

How the NAACP Forced the Government to Reverse Segregation—In 1927

The monitor (Omaha, Neb.)

1926: When Hand Cream Cost 25¢ and Jersey Cows Needed TB Tests

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

The $60,000 Family Betrayal That Shocked 1906 New York

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

Sixteen Days to Election: Bryan's Train vs. McKinley's Yellow-Badge Mob—1896's Ultimate Campaign Showdown

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Exporting Maine Apples to Europe, One Carefully Packed Barrel at a Time (1886)

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

Inside a Centennial Newspaper: The Day Maine Advertised 1-Cent Underdresses and Secret Remedies

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

The Empress Who Refused to Leave the Vatican—Plus Johnson's Civil War Still Raging

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

One Week Before the Election That Changed Everything: How Everett Saved Lincoln in October 1864

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Home Guards & Cotton Cards: How the Confederacy Armed the Desperate (Oct. 1863)

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

Conscription Orders & Missing Slaves: Inside the Confederate War Machine, October 1862

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Why One Massachusetts Judge Bet the Union's Survival on Corn Instead of Cannons (Oct. 21, 1861)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

1856: Slaves, Railroads & the Contracts That Couldn't Hold the Nation Together

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

Inside the Launch of Washington's Newest Paper (1846): Temperance, Fake Medical Rings, and the Cost of a Newspaper

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)