On This Day: December 9 — Century Dispatch

Guaranteed Returns, Suburban Dreams, and a Wife Who Wouldn't Spend: Maryland in 1927

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

When the KKK Nailed a School Shut (and Cats Voted in Philly)

Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)

When a senator's secret affair exploded into gunfire at Washington's fanciest hotel

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

A Bride Triumphed, a Tariff Loomed, and a Jilted Woman Sued for $20,000 (Dec. 9, 1896)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Frontier Town's Christmas Shopping Spree — and Why Atlanta's Ban on Saloons Actually Worked

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

A Widow's Firewood & the Secret to Saving Drunkards: Mississippi, 1876

The weekly Copiahan (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.)

Printing Presses & Political Turmoil: How Iowa's Gate City Covered Reconstruction's Turning Point

The daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)

How a Maine newspaper just destroyed Britain's right to complain about America's war—using 200 years of British...

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

The South's Hopes Die at Missionary Ridge—Captured Letters Reveal Despair Spreading Across Confederacy

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

The USS Cumberland's Last Stand—Told in Verse by Union Soldiers at a Wartime Hospital Gazette

Hammond gazette (Point Lookout, Md.)

The Ships That Powered a Doomed Economy: New Orleans in December 1856

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

Why Polk Thought He Had No Choice: A President Justifies War with 9 Years of Grievance

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

Washington's Transportation Revolution: When Steamboats & Trains Battled for Your Dollar (Dec. 1836)

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