On This Day: December 6 — Century Dispatch

Congress Opens with a Fight: Smith and Vare Stopped at the Senate Door (Dec. 6, 1927)

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

The Senator, the Snowstorm, and 806,400 Radishes: December 6, 1926

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

When George Washington's bayonet charge saved the Scottish Highlanders (and built Pittsburgh)

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

When Britain Tried to Buy America's Ambassador a Christmas Gift—and Started an International Incident

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

1886 Sacramento: When 5¢ Talking Dolls & 440-Acre Farms Competed for Holiday Shoppers' Attention

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])

Frozen Dakota, Three December Weddings & the Frontier's Darkest Secret (Dec. 6, 1876)

Lincoln County advocate (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])

Congress Punishes Johnson's Allies & Investigates 'Hundreds of Millions' in Wartime Frauds (Dec. 6, 1866)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Dec 6, 1865: Johnson's Big Reconstruction Speech (Plus You Can Buy Robert E. Lee Photos?!)

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

John Brown's Secret Letter From the Gallows—Plus Why Lincoln Was About to Fire His Top General

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Virginia Rebels Losing Faith: How Emancipation Turned Secessionists Into Defeatists (Dec. 1862)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

December 1861: Inside a Confederate City Preparing for War—The Hats, the Insurance, and the Hidden Panic

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Four Weeks Before the 1856 Election Fallout: A Nation Still Building Its Infrastructure—While It Lasted

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