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January

January 1, 1846: Democrats Plot Polk's Re-Election While Oregon Teeters on the...

How a Michigan Mesmerist Cured Rheumatism (and Caught a Fugitive) — Plus: The...

New Year 1846: A Washington Awash in European Silk, Cigars, and Pianos—Before...

When a Ticket to Liverpool Cost More Than a House: Transportation Revolution in...

A Sheriff Hangs His Own Son: The Tragedy That Killed Him on the Spot...

A Supreme Court Battle Over Land, a Texas Governor's Landslide, and Shipwrecks...

Inside Washington's Most Exclusive Ball (and the Merchant Dentist Offering 'No...

Congress Fights Over Washington's Monument: Should the Government Let Citizens...

A Slave Mother's Prayer: How Poetry Became America's Anti-Slavery Weapon (1846)

When Congress Debated Banning Immigrants From Voting (1846): A Speech You Need...

Exposed: How Tyler's Own Men Got Drunk and Lied to the President (Jan. 11, 1846)

When the Fed Locked Money in Iron Chests: What the 1846 Treasury War Can Teach...

1846: A Visionary's Blueprint for Manifest Destiny—The Transcontinental...

Magic, Migration & Medicine: What Washington Read in January 1846—Right Before...

Congress Dreams of Canals Across Florida While Washington Speculators Rush to...

"Defend Them or Perish": A Western Congressman's Explosive Case for Seizing All...

Mahogany Sofas, Dyspepsia Pills & Real Estate Booms: Inside Washington's 1846...

A Nation in Motion: Inside the Herald's 1846 Transportation Revolution

How America Slept in 1846: A Crusade Against Filthy Bedrooms and Bad Diet

Going, Going, GONE!—Portsmouth's Epic 1846 Clothing Auction (Plus John Quincy...

"Don't Fight Yet"—A Congressman's Bold Plan to Win Oregon Without Firing a Shot...

War Drums Over Oregon: How Congress Nearly Fought Britain (Then Backed Down)

1846: When Washington dreamed of a railroad to the Pacific—and how close they...

"Oregon Murdered": How a Frontier Newspaper Raged Against Manifest Destiny's...

How a Whisper Campaign Destroyed a Jewish Editor's Career in 1846 New York

When Dickens Became a Newspaper Editor—And Why Britain's Government Nearly...

1846: When Counterfeit Medicine Was a Capital Crime (in the Court of Public...

Mexico City Falls to a General—And America Holds Its Breath Before War

"Fifty-Four Forty or Fight": Inside the Legal Battle Over Oregon (5 Months...

A Widow's Bible Settles a Revolutionary Murder (Baltimore, 1846)

Florida's 1846 Election Chaos: How One Congressman Exposed the Cracks in...

February

A Newspaper Full of Ships: How America Moved People Across the Atlantic in 1846

"The Whole of Oregon!" How Congress Nearly Went to War with Britain Over Empty...

A Southern Congressman's Furious Warning: Why 'Oregon or War' Was Legally...

Three Newspapers Born Overnight: How 1846 Arkansas Tried to Cover a Nation...

Erased Bills and Disappeared Votes: How Indiana Legislators Hid a Sketchy Canal...

1846: When America Debated Going to War with Britain—And Why Steam Ships...

54°40' or Fight: Congress Battles Britain Over Oregon as Settlers Flood West...

"Not One Cent for Tribute": How a Brave Doctor Exposed a $2,000 Shakedown at...

Stephen Douglas Declassifies 28-Year-Old Diplomacy to Prevent War With Britain...

Should America Arm for War or Peace? A Florida Senator's Urgent 1846 Warning

War or Law? Congress Debates Whether America Can Break Its Treaty to Claim...

"Virginia Never Built Monuments"—A Congressman's Furious Defense as America...

"Our Title Dates With the Creation of the World": How Congress Nearly Started a...

1846: When steamboats, slaves, and Dutch tulip bulbs shared the same shopping...

The Immigrant Gateway: Inside 1846 New York's Booming Packet Ship...

Tennessee's Firebrand vs. Virginia's Diplomat: The Oregon Debate That Almost...

Boots, Teeth, and Miracle Cures: Inside a Portsmouth Merchant's Struggle (1846)

How a Fiery Arkansas Congressman Nearly Started a War Over 'Every Foot' of...

"Oregon is Ours!" Polk Rejects British Deal; Indiana Demands Expansion (1846)

Baltimore's Militia Goes Public—City Delegates Accused of Sabotage (1846)

Britain's Stunning U-Turn: A Free-Trade Revolution That Could Change...

A President Sells Patronage Like Spoils of War—New York's Fury at John Tyler's...

Oregon or Bust: Inside Congress's Explosive Debate Over America's Western...

1846: How Portsmouth Competed With Railroads—and Why Dr. Smith's Pills Went...

Maryland's Four-Year Financial Shame Ends: State Ready to Pay Its Debts Again

1846: The Census That Proved Native Americans Could Be Citizens—And Why America...

"Cannon's Mouth": How Congress Nearly Started a War Over Oregon in 1846

Inside a Baltimore Dry Goods Store, 1846: Why One Clerk Didn't Mind the...

March

1846: The Day New York Shipped the World—And Prepared for Millions More

Should Congress Break Treaties With Britain? A South Carolina Lawmaker's Fiery...

1846: Congress Threatens War Over Oregon—'We'll Match Britain Triple-Fold' |...

A Frontier Town Watches History Unfold: Little Rock, 1846—Texas, Oregon,...

When the South Fought Federal 'Pork': A Fiery 1846 Speech on $1.4M Worth of...

When New York Nearly Abolished Feudalism: The Anti-Rent Wars Parliament Debate...

The South's Last Stand: How a 1846 Constitutional Fury Predicted the Civil War

1846: When New York Was Buying and Selling Its Future—One Penny at a Time

Should Congress Tell the President 'No'? A Forgotten 1846 Debate That Shaped...

"The Territory Is Ours, and We Must Not Part With It": How Congress Nearly...

1846 Providence: When Dentists Guaranteed Painless Toothaches (Sort Of)

Oregon or War? 1846 Indiana Editors Demand 'The Whole' Territory from Britain

Should America Risk War Over Oregon? A South Carolina congressman says no—and...

Baltimore's Militia Just Walked Out—and the City Says It's Now Defenseless...

Inside Tyler's Mess: How Washington Forced Bureaucrats to Buy Party Newspapers...

1846: A Fiery Alabama Congressman Exposes the Sectional Anger Brewing Over...

Bread, War & Escape: The Week Britain Remade Economics (and India Invaded Back)

1846: How Arkansas Debated Seizing Half a Continent (And Why It Mattered)

Indiana's $5 Million Debt Blows Up in London—and the State Blames the...

What Washington D.C. Was Buying (and Selling) Just Before the Mexican-American...

Should Congress Build America's Rivers? A 1846 Congressman Makes the...

A Famous Ox, Paris Straw Hats, and Harlem Country Seats: March 1846

Should America Fight Britain Over Oregon? The Senate's Agonized Debate—March...

1846: Pennsylvania Whigs Nominate Power, Declare War on Polk's Free Trade

Steamboats, Stagecoaches & Starch: Life in Frontier Arkansas, March 1846

War or Peace? Polk's Startling Call to Arms—Britain Arming Against America...

A Throat Cut Ear-to-Ear & A Fiddle Full of Corpses: Baltimore's Wildest Week...

Lost Rabbit Hounds, Paris Silks & a Young Surgeon Named Beauregard: Inside 1846...

How James Gordon Bennett Held a President Hostage: The Press Coup of 1841

A Maryland Congressman's Desperate Plea to Save the Union Through Canals (1846)

Congress Throws a Trade War Party in D.C. (Plus a Free Black Carpenter Sails to...

April

A Treasure Hunt Gone Right: How a Baltimore Paper Sold Romance Over Revolution...

Why Indiana's 1846 Constitutional Convention Fight Reveals America's Slavery...

OREGON OR WAR: Benton's Fiery Senate Speech Invokes Jefferson to Defend...

Lost Rabbit Hounds & French Cashmere: A Day in Baton Rouge Before the War

The Day Tyler's Inner Circle Got Roasted in Print (1846): Political Satire...

April 1846: Washington Booming With Property Deals—While War Looms Unnoticed

Congress Debates Seats While War Looms: April 1846's Hidden Political Fault...

Hot Springs Carriages & French Wines: What Arkansas Commerce Looked Like in 1846

War Drums Over Oregon: How Indiana Watched America Nearly Fight Britain in 1846

A Penny for Your Temperance News: Washington's Bold New Paper Arrives (1846)

One Cent for Temperance: How a Radical D.C. Paper Launched America's Crusade...

1846 New York: When Harlem Was Suburbs and Hoboken Was the Future

Coffee Boilers, Stabbing Trials & Fraternal Balls: Washington Prepares for...

A Young Man's Last Letter: The Gambling Suicide That Haunted Baltimore, 1846

Fifty-Four Forty or Fight: When Congress Debated War Over Oregon (1846)

1846: The Speech That Almost Fixed American Money (Before Everything Fell Apart)

How a Yankee Cobbler's Sign Board Started a Trade War (Plus: Slidell's Secret...

Can College Students Vote? A Bitter 1846 House Fight That Nearly Changed...

800 Passengers Escape as Prestigious Steamship Oregon Wrecks in Hell Gate—Just...

When Congress Taxed Chickens but Not Banks: 1846's Fiery Fight Over Money &...

April 1846: A Penny for Your Temperance—Washington's Boldest Reformers Launch a...

War, Roses & Fortune: Washington on the Brink (April 22, 1846)

War Is Coming: American Forces Mass on the Rio Grande as Mexico's Diplomacy...

Washington Real Estate Boom—The Day Before War (April 24, 1846)

Madrid's Learned Men Debate Decimal Reform While Spain Builds Its First...

Slush Funds, Drunken Senators & Dying Bureaucrats: Inside the Tyler...

A Senator's Daughter Learns a Lesson From an Irish Gardener (and a Warning...

April 28, 1846: A Woman Follows Her Husband Into War, Mormons Head West, and...

A Penny for Your Temperance: How One Washington Printer Started a Moral Crusade...

A Naked Masked Man, a Collapsing Theater, and Madrid's Carnival Chaos—April 1846

May

When Congress Fought Over Canals While Starting a War: The Sectional Rage of...

The West Revolts: How America's Interior Declared War on Atlantic Favoritism...

1846: Did Your Doctor's Lancet Kill You? One New York Newspaper Said Yes

Britain Issues Thinly Veiled War Warning Over Oregon—One Month Before Peace...

Portsmouth's 1846 Health Board Just Invented Modern Quarantine (and Made Some...

A Senator's Fury Over Fake News (1846): When Congress Battled Over Western...

May 1846: Democrats Fight Over Jackson's Monument (And Accidentally Defend...

Should Washington Give Illinois Free Land for Railroads? Congress Debates (May...

Gunpowder, Havana Sweetmeats & Political Censorship: Inside Frontier Arkansas...

1846: One Man's Savage Defense of John Tyler—Plus: Why Chinese Doctors Cured...

War Fever in Washington: How America Decided to Invade Mexico (May 1846)

How Congress Quietly Opened the West to Settlement—Three Days Before Declaring...

"The Cry is Still They Come!" Mississippi Answers the War Drums—May 1846

May 14, 1846: Congress Votes for War—and Argues Over Soldier Pay While Doing It

WAR FEVER: 15,000 Cheering Americans Pledge Their Lives to Mexico, May 1846

A Penny a Day for Sobriety: How One D.C. Printer Launched a Temperance...

Argentina's Dictator Blamed for 22,000+ Deaths—And the World Does Nothing (May...

Horace Greeley Destroys a Governor Over Rum, Liquor, and Hypocrisy (May 1846)

Congress Fortifies America (and Fort Sumter) as War with Mexico Begins—May 1846

May 1846: When Bonnets Cost a Quarter and Doctors Sold 'Panacea' in Providence

War Declared: Inside the May 1846 Battle That Would Reshape America (and Split...

One Cent for Virtue: How a Washington Newspaper Bet Everything on Temperance...

Congress Authorizes War (Without Quite Saying So): May 1846's Legalistic Grab...

May 1846: Before the War, New York Was Obsessed With Getting Passage Across the...

20,000 New Yorkers Roar for War: May 1846's Massive Pro-Mexico Rally That...

Senator Benton's Bold Gamble: Can He Stop America From Claiming Too Much of...

Congress Teeters on War with Britain Over Oregon—One Alabama Democrat Begs for...

1846: A Congressman's Furious Warning About Banks That Will Destroy America (He...

When Daniel Webster Exploded on the Senate Floor: The Territorial Gamble That...

Congress Fights Over Who Started the Mexican War—And Gets It Dead Wrong

Chaos on the Rio Grande: American troops rout Mexico's army as generals flee in...

June

A Mayoral Candidate's Desperate Defense, a Drugged Baby, and Why Washington's...

Senate Erupts Over Oregon: Did America's Famous "54° 40' or Fight" Boundary...

Soldier's Letter From Mexico: How Taylor's Army Routed 2,000 Mexicans in Two...

Congress Fears Britain Will Join Mexico's War—And Holmes Warns of Something...

A Rejected Diplomat and a Collapsing Nation: How America's Last Peace Offer to...

Two Prisoners Flee Puerto Rico's Puntilla Prison—The Hunt Begins (1846)

A Doctor Calls Gout a Hoax, Plus a Shipwreck Curse (1846)

A Dead Sand Vendor, a Celebrated Hat, and Violin Genius: What Washington's...

1846: The Secret Military Buildup Before Mexico War—Newly Published Orders...

When Generals Defied Washington: The Untold Turf War Before the...

EXCLUSIVE: General Gaines's Secret War Orders from June 1846—America Mobilizes...

General Taylor's Mexico Victory Dispatches—And the Religious Schism Tearing...

General Taylor's Gamble: Inside the Secret Plan to Conquer Mexico (1846)

Torn Between War & Medicine: How 1846 New York Feared Both Union Collapse and...

1846 Arkansas: When Burning Moscow Was the Hottest Summer Read

Inside Occupied Mexico: What One Witness Saw in the Hospitals—and Why Mexican...

Jackson Hall Gets Its Day, and a Doctor Promises Miraculous Mechanical...

Ohio Rep Defends State Against 'Atrocious' Antislavery Colleagues as War Tears...

A Steamboat Captain's Dangerous Secret + A Theater Tragedy That Killed 46

Massacre at Goliad: A German Witness Relives Texas's Darkest Hour (1846)

When Doctors Killed More Than They Cured: A Furious 1846 Newspaper Takes On the...

How America's First Revenue System Prevented Cheating (1846): A Senator...

Oregon Betrayed: How a Campaign Promise Split America's Democrats in 1846

Paris in Revolt: How Thiers Built a Coalition That Would Topple a King (and...

How One Wool Merchant Lost $9,500 and Changed American Agriculture (1846)

When America's Greatest Minds Fought Over Dry-Docks (and One Sank in France)

A Temperance Crusader Launches His Washington Paper (and Invents Leech...

Mexican War, Egyptian Princes & Why Queen Victoria Ghosted Paris: June 1846

A Diplomat's Scandalous Secret: What America's Mexico Envoy Really Thought...

Portsmouth, 1846: When Patent Medicine Ads Took Over the Front Page (and...

July

"Never Been in Harrisburg in My Life, Sir!" — A Witness Confounds the Court...

When Even Importers Wanted Tariffs: How America's Merchants Changed Their Minds...

Sam Houston's Secret Fourth: A General, a Treasury, and the Last Peace Before...

One Cent, One Nation: How a Temperance Newspaper Launched on July 4, 1846...

POPE DEAD, POTATOES DYING, AMERICA WINNING: What London Thinks (Delivered in 10...

War, Empire & Speed: How One Messenger & One Battle Changed America's Destiny...

When Congress Nearly Failed: The Tariff Meltdown of 1846—and Why Western...

Telegraph to Boston: America Just Shrank to the Speed of Electricity (1846)

Senator Benton's Vision of American Destiny: How a 1846 Senate Speech Justified...

Oregon Is Ours: How Washington Chose Diplomacy Over War—Plus Astrology for...

A Penny Press Pioneer: Inside Washington's Newest Temperance Newspaper (1846)

A Fever Dream in the City: How 1846 New York Exposed Medical Quackery (With...

1846: Congressman Exposes How 'Protective' Tariffs Were Secretly Fleecing Poor...

Webster's Scathing War: A Senator Demands Truth About Mexico (1846)

Free Trade vs. Factories: The Congressional Showdown That Changed America's...

One Vote Saved America's Economy: The Tariff Battle That Funded the Mexican War...

Horace Greeley's War Against War: How the Tribune's 1846 Manifesto Predicted...

Senator Dix Goes to Bat for Small Merchants: The Warehouse Bill That Could...

The Fall of an Empire: How Sir Robert Peel's Resignation Reshaped Britain—and...

"Out Upon All Such Humbuggery!" — How Congress Buried Tariff Fraud in...

How Polk's Land Auctions, Navy Contracts & Medical Schools Reveal 1846 America...

Inside a Bitter 1846 Campaign: Democrats Mock Whigs With Brutal Satire—And...

War Money: How Polk Borrowed $10 Million to Fund the Mexican-American War (July...

Schoolchildren in White Dresses & Warships at Vera Cruz: July 4th, 1846

Virginia Congressman Calls Out Congress for Shredding the Constitution Over...

When Ships, Not Airplanes, Brought America Its Dreams: The Immigrant Ads That...

July 1846: As America Goes to War, Arkansas Courts Settle Land Fraud and...

July 1846: Congress Debates Soldier Pay While War Rages—and Lottery Tickets...

Brazil's Government Collapses Over Wounded Pride—And Rosas Plays Dictator While...

The Penny Temperance Press: How a One-Cent Newspaper Tried to Sober Up 1846...

July 1846: Marines, Medals & Murder in Washington City—A Snapshot of Antebellum...

August

"Our Title is Established Beyond Controversy": A Congressman Rewrites History...

A Prisoner Drags His Executioner to Hell: Vigilante Justice on the 1846 Frontier

When Congress Fought Over Cotton: A Congressman's Rage Against Tariffs, 1846

The Day America Embraced Free Trade (and Won't Again for 70 Years): The Walker...

Mobilizing for Mexico: How One Mississippi Town Learned War Had Arrived (August...

How America Nearly Went to War with Britain Over Oregon—and Solved It With a...

When Doctors Got Desperate: How a Smallpox Scare Turned Baltimore Physicians...

When a Penny Newspaper Tried to Save America from Whiskey: The Columbian...

Caught Red-Handed: A Manhattan Love Triangle Ends in Teapot Warfare (1846)

August 1846: When a Condemned Killer Sold His Body to Science (and Got Paid in...

The Penny Press Revolution: Meet Washington's New Temperance Newspaper (August...

Judge Hanged in Effigy: When a Kentucky Courthouse Became a Mob Court (1846)

1846: Spain Tightens the Screws on Colonial Puerto Rico—While Rome Mourns a Pope

War, Tariffs & Cornfields: Why Indians & White Settlers Were Fighting Over...

One Penny for Your Thoughts: Inside a Forgotten Washington Newspaper from 1846

A Street Fight Over a Mysterious Page: Sunday Dispatch Launches Scandalous...

How America Fed Its Navy (and Managed a War Debt) in 1846—Plus Capitol Real...

Bavaria Opens Its Doors to American Settlers—Plus a $120 Lost Wallet and a...

1846: How the U.S. Built a Remote Island Fort (With Prefab Parts Shipped by Sea)

Britain Just Abolished Its Trade Barriers—And Congress Is Furious About It...

A Whig Politician's Devastating Takedown: 'You've Betrayed Everything You...

Four Men Tarred & Feathered a Woman in Her Own Home — And Almost Got Away With...

Tied to a Bench & Forced to Watch: Inside a Rowdy 1840s NYC Music Hall

Washington is Booming: Inside the 1846 Real Estate Frenzy That Built America's...

One Cent for Virtue: Inside the First Issue of Washington's Temperance...

A General's Gamble: When Zachary Taylor's Savior Got Court-Martialed by Polk

Capitol Hill Real Estate Boom: Why Washingtonians Were Buying Farmland at...

When Washington was a Real Estate Boomtown: Inside the Aug. 28, 1846 Auctions

A Drunk Man, a Ghost, and a Shotgun: What One 1846 Indiana Tale Reveals About...

A Jealous Husband, a Lost Son, and Why New Yorkers in 1846 Were Obsessed With...

How Frontier Newspapers Got Paid: The 1846 Postmaster System That Solved Rural...

September

MEXICO IN CHAOS: Paredes Overthrown, Santa Anna Returns, California...

1846: When Electro-Galvanic Baths Cured Everything (And How Washington's Elite...

When Medical School Cost $3/Week & Girls Learned French Near the...

What Did America Actually Pay For? A Hidden 1846 Budget Reveals Westward...

How Congress Funded the War That Reshaped America: The $12 Million Vote Nobody...

An American Abroad Insults English Oysters (1846): 'Our Clams Are Tougher'

Oregon by Mail, Miss Heaney's Accomplishments & the Grim Fine Print of 1846...

Mail to Oregon is FREE (1846): How America's frontier finally got connected

How a Traitor's Shame Haunted Him Across an Ocean: Benedict Arnold's Forgotten...

Letters to Oregon for One Cent: How Washington Conquered the West (One Stamp at...

1846: How a General Impressed the Duke of Wellington (and What a Picnic Tells...

1846 Baton Rouge: A Merchant's Paradise (and a Slave Market)

Britain's Free Trade Triumph & America's Dread: A London Correspondent Predicts...

One Penny for Your Thoughts: Inside Washington's New Temperance Paper (Sept....

Glass Hernias and Capitol Real Estate: What 1846 Washington Really Wanted

A Penny Newspaper for Sobriety: Inside Washington's 1846 Temperance Press

A Queen Paints & Goya Steals the Show: 1846 Madrid's Greatest Art Exhibition,...

1846 Washington: Pianos, Plantations & the Making of a Capital

Constantinople's Sultan Arrives by Steamship While Caribbean Colonists Read...

A Prophecy of Britain's Fall—From 1846: One Correspondent's Stunning Prediction...

September 1846: Washington Schools, Coal, and a Glass-Padded Medical Miracle

Soldiers, Orphans & Secret Handshakes: How One Speech Defended America's...

How Baltimore's Volunteers Became America's First Conquerors (And What It Cost)

A Penny Newspaper Declares War on Whiskey: Inside Washington's 1846 Temperance...

How American Abolitionists Nearly Started a War With Britain (1846)

One Penny for Your Thoughts: How a Temperance Paper Launched Washington's Media...

A Seamstress's Ten Cents & the Poetry of Rage: What the 1846 Dispatch Reveals...

A Young Widow's Five Tragedies: The Scandal That Gripped Arkansas Readers in...

When Washington's Best Families Endorsed Girls' Schools (And Fought Over Coal...

A Farmer's Daughter Defies Wealth & Wins: 1846's Moral Tale (Plus Murder &...

October

One Cent for Truth: How a Temperance Newspaper Exposed 1846 Washington (and...

How America Wired Texas Into the Union (And Why It Mattered More Than Anyone...

Mozart's Last Song & the Fight for America's Lead Mines: October 1846

Potatoes Rotting Across Europe, Empires Fracturing: Oct. 4, 1846

Santa Anna Returns, California Burns, and Arkansas Watches: October 1846

When America Fed a Starving Europe: October 1846 and the Crisis Nobody Saw...

When a Yankee Rode the Coal Screen (and What Doctors Found in the Victim's...

War, Canals & Commodores: Inside Indiana's 1846 Race to Shape America

Glass Hernias & Hernia Trusses: Why Washington's Doctors Were Raving About This...

Louisiana Living in 1846: Magnolias, Silk, and the Secret Economy Behind...

New York's Bold 1846 Constitution: Democracy for Some, Disenfranchisement for...

Wartime Washington: How a Nation Fights Mexico While Buying French Cloth and...

Rent a Capitol Hill mansion for mere dollars: Inside Washington's 1846 real...

When War Profits Met Fashion: What Washington Was Really Buying in October 1846

While America Fought Mexico, Washington Sold Hernia Trusses and French Fabric...

October 1846: How Washington Looked While America Conquered Half of Mexico

The Mexican War Was Raging, but Washington's Real News Was Better Tailors and...

"I Love You Better Than Heaven": The Scandalous Love Letters That Shocked...

Should Prisoners Weave? Arkansas Debates Penitentiary Labor in 1846

1846: When Washington Sold Miracle Cures & War Claims by the Page

Inside the Launch of Washington's Newest Paper (1846): Temperance, Fake Medical...

While War Raged in Mexico, Washington's Merchants Sold Glass Hernias and French...

Hernias, French cloth, and electro-galvanic vapors: Inside 1846 Washington's...

One Cent Gets You Everything: A Temperance Crusade, Galvanic Quackery, and...

Fresh from Monterey: Officers Fall, Empires Rise—What October 1846 Reveals...

Glass Hernias and French Cloth: Inside 1846 Washington's Medical and Fashion...

Patent Hernias & Imported Chefs: How 1846 Washington Sold Progress to the Masses

Polk Opens Millions of Arkansas Acres: The Bureaucracy of Manifest Destiny...

One Cent for Redemption: The Temperance Paper That Tried to Save America's Soul...

For Sale: An Entire Ohio City for $9,000 (Plus, a Troubling Soap Ad From 1846)

A Lovesick Lunatic Threatens to Tie Up the Winds: Indianapolis Newspaper, 1846

November

A Grandson's Vengeance: How a 1846 Penny Paper Told America's Darkest Secrets...

Glass Rupture Pads & Imported Chefs: Inside Washington's November 1846 Medical...

Monterey's Slaughter: How America's War with Mexico Spiraled Into Carnage (1846)

How Polk Gave Away Millions of Acres & Cut Tariffs in One Week—Changing...

An Officer's Letter from Texas: The Alamo's Final Days, Told with Haunting...

Before Railroads Ruled: How Americans Shipped Mail by Steamboat in 1846

Swedish Leeches, Congressional Secrets & Piano Lessons for $12: Inside...

The Day Europe's Food Crisis Hit the Headlines: Grain Soaring, Ireland...

A Sailor's Unjust Execution Exposed: Inside the U.S. Navy's Brutal Justice...

Famine, Fleeing Bullion & Broken Alliances: America Becomes Europe's...

Washington, Nov. 1846: Hernia Trusses, War-Time Sheet Music, and the Last Days...

"Too Much Irish Blood to Give Up": A Baltimore Hero Dies as Mexico War Gets...

A Doctor's Patented Hernia Fix, a Celebrated French Chef, and Why 1846...

Andrew Jackson Threatened to Throw a Captain Out a Window—and It Worked:...

Washington, 1846: Human Hair Wigs, Steamboat Auctions & a Cure for Kidney Stones

November 1846: What Washington Was Really Reading (Spoiler: Not the War News)

The Horticulturist Debuts & Patent Trusses Boom: America's Commercial Life in...

Desperate Tailors, Defiant Mexico, and a Mysterious $5M Loan Gone Wrong—Nov....

Closing the City Hotel: Inside Washington's 1846 Auction Bonanza (+ a Miracle...

When Indianapolis Merchants Fought Price Wars (1846): The Hidden Capitalism of...

When Five Steamboat Lines Competed on the Same Route: A Window Into 1846...

"Our Troops Fought with Obstinacy"—Taylor's Triumphant Report from Monterey...

1846: A war hero's death, a brown wedding dress, and London's wild new housing...

Inside 1846 Washington: Medical Patents, Land Bubbles & the Birth of American...

A Woman's Mercy in War: The Gale That Wrecked Ships and Hearts (Nov. 26, 1846)

A Beautiful Young Woman Takes the Stand: Inside the Sensational Van Ness...

An 1846 Rage Against the Machine: Why This Newspaper Editorial Still Stings

How Washington's Doctors & Real Estate Speculators Prepared for War (November...

December

A Country Girl Discovers Urban Deception (and City Milk Might Be Chalk)

The Panther's Vengeance: How One Frontiersman Ended an Indian War (1846)

Whale Oil & Bonnet Lace: Inside Newport's Thriving 1846 Economy

How America's Tiny 1846 Government Actually Worked: The Budget That Cost Less...

Little Rock, 1846: War Poems, Land Fever, and the Steamboat Wars

War Dispatches & City Mourning: How Maryland Honored Its Dead While the Army...

Why Polk Thought He Had No Choice: A President Justifies War with 9 Years of...

Did a Woman Forge Marriage Documents to Steal a General's Fortune? The Van Ness...

War Department Claims Stunning Victories in Mexico—Taylor's Army Takes...

Sea Otter Gold Rush, Colonial Lies & Why Boston Merchants Almost Started a War...

A Renegade Officer, a Framed Sergeant, and the Fall of Mexico: December 14, 1846

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

From Wilderness to Wonder: How Ohio Became America's Fastest-Growing State—And...

A Cabinet Secretary's Brutal Diagnosis: America's Consular System Is a Mess...

Soldiers Return Home as Baltimore Grapples With Africa—Inside 1846's Deepening...

Christmas 1846 in Washington: French Bonbons, Army Occupation, and the...

Mexican War Rages, Congress Splits, $600K in Goods Under Siege—Christmas 1846

A Maui Farmer's Cry for Justice: Hawaii's 1846 Labor Crisis—Before the Great...

Rangers, Ciphers & Scandalous Affairs: Dec. 1846 Dispatch Reveals Secret...

Women Making Munitions, Bishops Paying War Taxes, and Santa Anna's Desperate...

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

How Polk Talked America Into War: The Mexican Grievances That Built an Empire...

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