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November 29
1927
Boston's Night of Gunfire: When Police Laid Siege to a South End House for Hours
New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)
1926
Nov 29, 1926: Murder widow battles prosecutor while America hits prosperity peak
South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)
1906
When Rockefeller Lost $17 Million in One Month (And Other 1906 Dramas)
Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)
1896
Hawaii Wants In, Wheat Hits $1, and a Wedding Turned Deadly: November 1896
New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.])
1886
Lost Bay Mare, Bargain Felt Hats, and the Secret Labor Market of 1880s Sacramento
Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])
1876
Outlaws Sentenced to Life, Hayes Declares Victory, and Dakota Burns: Nov. 1876 from the Frontier
Lincoln County advocate (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])
1866
1866: When Frontiers Swallowed Families Whole—A Widow's Story from Iowa
Council Bluffs bugle (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
1865
$12 million to kill 25 Indians: A devastating 1865 exposé of America's failed frontier war
Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])
1864
Sherman's Victory Echoes Silently: Why the Rebels Stopped Printing the News
Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])
1863
The South Unraveling: Deserters, Conscription, and a Cavalry Recruit's Diarrhea—What a 1863 Confederate Paper Really...
The Chattanooga Daily Rebel (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
1862
Inside a Civil War Prison Camp: The Sutler's Shocking Letter from Ohio (1862)
The Cecil Whig (Elkton, Md.)
1861
New Orleans Drills for War (While Still Selling Lamps): A Confederate City at the Hinge of History, Nov. 1861
New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])
1856
1856: South Bids 'Slave Labor' as Construction Advantage While Building a Doomed Railroad to the Pacific
The daily union (Washington [D.C.])
1836
How Americans Could Travel 500 Miles in 26 Hours (in 1836)
Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])
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