On This Day: December 3 — Century Dispatch

A Desert City's Water Wars: 1927 Las Vegas Fights Its Monopoly (And Nearly Loses a Boy to a Truck)

Las Vegas age (Las Vegas, Nev.)

When a Ford cost $150 and newspapers published adventure novels (Dec 3, 1926)

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

1896: A Furious Nebraska Farmer Explains Why Populism Lost—and Why He'll Never Stop Fighting

The Nebraska independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Why Admiral Farragut Wasn't Actually Tied to the Mast (Plus: Cleveland's Rheumatism & the Deadpan Bureaucrat Who...

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

The Room Where Reconstruction Ended: Inside Louisiana's Explosive 1876 Election Tribunal

New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, La)

December 1865: Congress Locks Out the South, Defies President Johnson

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

Arkansas's Election Crisis, Rat Pies, and Why Bread Cost $10 a Loaf in 1864

National democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

A Portland Lawyer's $300 Moral Reckoning: Why This 1863 Letter Explains the Whole Civil War

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Lincoln Refused to Compromise: A Kentucky Governor's Bitter Account from December 1862

Clearfield Republican (Clearfield, Pa.)

A Soldier Shoots a Waiter Over Oysters—And a Town Nearly Lynches Him (Dec. 3, 1861)

Staunton spectator (Staunton, Va.)

When America Feared Collapse: A Lost Speech on National Virtue (1856)

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

Whale Oil & Bonnet Lace: Inside Newport's Thriving 1846 Economy

Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander (Newport, R.I.)

December 1836: America's Transportation Boom Hits 26-Hour Speed—And the Quack Doctors Are Getting Creative

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