On This Day: December 29 — Century Dispatch

West Virginia's Gilded Age: How One County Fought to Stay Ahead in 1927

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

The fisherman who ate his friend to survive 11 days at sea (plus floods, fistfights & fascists)

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

When America's Professors Debated Insurance Reform & A Small-Town Scandal Shocked Maine

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

War Averted: America Saves Britain and Venezuela From Bloodshed—Plus a Horrifying Irish Landslide Swallows an Entire...

The record-union (Sacramento, Calif.)

Cleveland's Carriage Ride & a Treasury So Rich It Needs Spending | December 29, 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Wilmington Reads About the Reign of Terror in the South—Dec. 29, 1876

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

Radical Republicans Demand Black Suffrage in Arkansas (1866): The Front-Line Fight Over Reconstruction

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: How Iowa Processed Civil War Trauma Through Biblical Satire & Denture Ads

Cedar Falls gazette (Cedar Falls, Iowa)

While Lee Retreats, Washington's Elite Shop for Furs and Sleeping Cars—A Wartime Winter Snapshot

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The South's Last Gamble: Should Slavery Itself Be Drafted? (Dec. 29, 1863)

Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)

Goodbye 'Beast Butler,' Hello General Banks: How One Ceremony Reshaped Occupied New Orleans

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

How New York's Sunday Paper Ignored a War (and What That Tells Us About 1861)

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

Before the War: Inside a Davenport Business Directory From 1856

Daily Iowa State Democrat (Davenport, Iowa)

From 25¢/Acre Land Deals to $9,000 Water Mills: How Americans Speculated in 1846

The Daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Inside 1836 Washington: Steamboats, Slave Auctions & Christmas Delicacies

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