On This Day: December 31 — Century Dispatch

Las Vegas Goes Big in 1928: New Highway, Grand Theater, and World-Class Rodeo Hit the Desert

Las Vegas age (Las Vegas, Nev.)

New Year's Eve 1926: Mexico Poised to Seize Billions in American Oil

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1906: The Governor-Elect Who Left Everyone Guessing

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

"A Premium on Arson": Nebraska's Auditor Exposes State's Fiscal Collapse (and Blasts Insurance Fraud)

The Nebraska independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)

How a Labor Leader Refused a Railroad's Bribe on New Year's Eve 1886—And the General Logan Funeral That Froze D.C.

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Barricaded Democracy: How One Governor Locked Out His Enemies on New Year's Eve 1876

New Orleans Republican (New Orleans, La)

1866's Final Hour: Massacre on the Plains, Mexico Pushes Back, and a Yacht Race Stuns the World

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

New Year's Eve 1865: The South celebrates freedom from 'bayonet rule' (spoiler: it didn't last) 🍾

The daily clarion (Meridian, Miss.)

New Year's Eve 1863: The South Admits Its Cracks—Substitutes, Copper Mills, and Prisoner Desperation

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

35 Deserters Named and Shamed: Inside the Confederate Army's Unraveling Discipline (Dec. 31, 1862)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

New Year's Eve 1856: The U.S. Government Was Still Building While the Nation Was Splitting

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

December 31, 1846: Indiana Democrats Declare Their Creed—And Lotteries Promise Fortunes

Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

December 31, 1836: Virginia's Last Moment of Genteel Contradiction—Rails, Racehorses, and Runaways

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)