On This Day: December 12 — Century Dispatch

When the American Legion Blinked: How Prohibition Divided Even the Veterans

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

When School Politics Turned Deadly: The Riley Family Poisoning Plot of 1926

South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)

When a 1901 anti-lynching bill nearly derailed a Supreme Court nomination

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

When Cartels Crumbled: How McKinley's America Began Reckoning With Monopoly Power (Dec. 1896)

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

Gladstone Under Fire, Boulanger Rises, and Lady Colin's Courtroom Triumph—Dec. 12, 1886

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

Grant's Deathbed Confession: 'I Made Mistakes' — His Final Words to Congress (1876)

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

One Year After Appomattox: Congress Seizes Control of Reconstruction (and a 103-Year-Old Vet's Pension Case)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

December 1865: Should America ditch its Civil War paper money? 💰

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Voting While Sherman Closes In: How Worcester Picked Its Leaders in the War's Final Winter

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

How the Civil War Became an Industrial Machine: The Day the Army Ordered 8,000 Cattle (December 12, 1862)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

A Brother Escapes Richmond, Tennessee Burns Bridges, and a Woman Knits Revolution: War Dispatches from December 1861

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

New Orleans, December 1856: The Port City's Last Gilded Year Before War

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

Sea Otter Gold Rush, Colonial Lies & Why Boston Merchants Almost Started a War Over Furs (1846)

Polynesian (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii)

The Blind See Again: The Doctor Curing Incurable Eyes Across America (Dec. 1836)

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