On This Day: December 24 — Century Dispatch

Death Row Confession: The Kidnapper Who Tried to Blame Someone Jailed Months Earlier (1927)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1926: When a NYC tabloid shocked America with lynching photos & the Texas Capitol porter got rehired

The monitor (Omaha, Neb.)

🎄 Christmas 1906: Roosevelt's 'Blackest Crime' Defense & the Railroad Car Crisis

Decorah-posten og ved arnen (Decorah, Iowa)

How a Yale Professor Just Solved America's Terrible Roads (And Why a Whale Shut Down a Ship Full of Doctors)

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

Christmas Eve 1886: How Washington's Elite Celebrated While the President Handed Out Pardons

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

The Day Louisiana's Democracy Died: A Newspaper Documents the Violence That Ended Reconstruction

New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, La)

Brazil Frees All Slaves While America Faces Its Reckoning: Dec. 24, 1866

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Christmas 1864: Sherman at Savannah, Hood Routed, Richmond in Panic—The Confederacy Collapses

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

Christmas Eve 1863: How a Former Slave Became a Union Captain (And Confederate Saboteurs Got Caught)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Christmas 1862 in Arkansas: Schools Open, Soldiers Conscripted, and War Reshapes a Town

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

Christmas 1861: While New York Shopped for Furs, the Army Begged for Soldiers

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

A Nation Spending Before the Storm: Treasury Contracts, Lotteries, and the Last Calm Christmas of the Union (1856)

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