On This Day: December 20 — Century Dispatch

The South's Highway Boom (And Why It All Falls Apart in 18 Months): Dec. 20, 1927

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

Red Grange Arrested, $55M Utility Fight, and Christmas in 1926 Indianapolis

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

When 86-year-old grooms made headlines & NYC ate muskrats disguised as rabbits

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

When Congress Tried to Overrule the President on Cuba—And Lost (1896)

The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)

Counterfeit Silver & Society Teas: What Washington's Elite Were Worried About in 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

When Santa Came to Dakota: Christmas, Accidents & Survival on the Frontier (1876)

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

A Rebel Soldier's Secret Gift to His Union Nurse (1866) — How Some Americans Found Grace After the War

Council Bluffs bugle (Council Bluffs, Iowa)

Dec 20, 1865: Johnson's healing words vs. desperate cotton ads in post-war Louisiana

The south-western (Shreveport, La.)

Hood's Army Shattered in Tennessee—Lincoln Calls for 300,000 More Troops (Dec. 20, 1864)

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

A Civil War Soldier Shot the General's Pet Crow—And Had to Eat It | Dec. 20, 1863

New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])

Lincoln's Secret Meeting Revealed: A Kentucky Delegate's Haunting Account of Pre-War Negotiations

The Placer herald (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.)

Love, War & Scandal: How This 1861 Gazette Captured America Tearing Itself Apart

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

Steamboats, Slavery, and Speculation: Inside a Delta Boomtown 4 Years Before the Civil War

Southern shield (Helena, Ark.)

Virginia's Planter Elite Send Their Sons to School—While Selling Enslaved People in the Classifieds

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)