On This Day: December 17 — Century Dispatch

Steel Saves Lives, Bullies Battle: Las Vegas Gets Wild in New Gymnasium (Dec. 17, 1927)

Las Vegas age (Las Vegas, Nev.)

When a Ford cost $150 and photographers went door-to-door: Small-town boom times, December 1926

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

1906: Railroad Boom Hits Kansas as Europe's Religious War Erupts

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Senator Allen's Furious Defense: Why Nebraska's Populist 'Revolution' Terrified the East (1896)

The Nebraska independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)

The Last Stand: How Louisiana's Sealed Votes Ended Reconstruction (December 1876)

New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, La)

Shakespeare, shipwrecks & 800 lost letters: Portland rebuilds, December 1866

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

When Nashville Sold Anchovy Paste and Italy Found Democracy

Daily union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

A Counterfeiter's Tobacco Problem & Other December 1864 New England Tales

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Soldiers, Slaves & The Crumbling South: Inside the Confederacy's Last Newspapers (Dec. 1863)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Confederate Currency Collapses: Watch Arkansas Quartermaster Desperately Sell War Bonds & Buy Slaves for Cash (Dec....

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

How Americans Spent Christmas 1861 (Hint: Not Thinking About the War)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

When New Orleans Ruled America's Trade (And Slavery Paid for It All)

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

A State Is Born: Iowa's Statehood—And the Trashy Romance That Distracted Frontier Readers

Burlington hawk-eye (Burlington, Iowa)

Exclusive: Washington's Private Letter Reveals Why He Begged Madison to Write His Farewell

Columbus Democrat (Columbus, Miss.)