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January

A General Warns of Disaster: Read Arizona's Prophetic 1876 Indian Policy Debate

How Fire Departments Coordinated the Centennial Midnight: Telegraph Bells,...

America's Centennial Year Dawns in Maine: Watch How 1876 America Really Shopped...

She Rejected Him in the Maple Grove—But 1876 Maine Had One More Twist

When Department Stores Fought Counterfeits & Gas Pipes Nearly Blew Up Phineas...

How a Farmer Discovered Why Frost Kills Some Crops But Not Others—And Why You...

1876: When Java Coffee Cost 40¢ and Miracle Worm Pills Outsold Everything Else

Apache Chief Shot Dead at Arizona Agency: The Domestic Dispute That Turned...

Murder Trial Reveals Early Forensic Science: Blood Under the Microscope, 1876

When Black Voters Defected: Senator Revels' Shocking Letter Exposes...

A Mystery Child, Lost Fortunes & Wax Flowers: Small-Town Maine's Heart Laid...

1876 Augusta: When Photographers Promised Not to Make You Look 'Frowsey' (&...

1876: Belfast Farmers Discover Why Their Cows Are Draining the Soil—And How to...

Ice-Cold Fish at 6¢, Oysters at 75¢: What Augusta, Maine Ate in 1876

Inside a Small-Town Maine Newspaper From America's Centennial Year: Oysters,...

Dancing Madness on Wall Street & Navy Yard Betrayal: January 16, 1876

A Jilted Fiancée Arrives at the Manor—But Where's the Groom? (Oxford Democrat,...

Tea Wars & Dancing Masters: What Wilmington Was Selling in 1876

January 1876: When Augusta's Fish Market and Photography Studio Were the Height...

Tea, Hats & Hard Times: Inside Wilmington's 1876 Economic Struggle

A Railroad Magnate's Wife, a British Officer, and Two Children: The Elopement...

1876 Wilmington: When Tea Merchants Waged Price Wars and Dance Halls Taught the...

1876: When Congress Fired a One-Handed Civil War Vet, and Grandpa's Brutal...

1876: Inside a Maine Newspaper Where Fish Markets Competed & Patent Medicine...

When Oysters Cost 45¢ a Quart: Daily Life in 1876 Maine

January 28, 1876: When Tea Importers Gave Away Free Glassware & Sheriffs...

1876: When Maine's Banks Promised Tax-Free Savings—And Fish Markets Cost a...

A Headless Mystery in New York: The Gruesome Discovery That Gripped 1876

A Wilmington Tea War, Foreclosures, and the Invention of Better Pain Relief...

February

1876 Augusta: When Fresh Oysters Cost 40¢ & Oysters Would Nearly Vanish Forever

What a Cough Remedy Cost in 1876—And Why Your Bank Account Probably Isn't That...

A Ghost, a Murder, and 100 Years of American Pride: What the 1876 Beacon Reveals

Armed Milk Cows and Apache Strongholds: How Arizona's Frontier Settlers Really...

Inside the Apache Agency: How an Arizona official claimed to 'civilize' 4,200...

How a Preacher's Sermon Moved 700 People to Tears—And Another Pastor's Secret...

February 1876: Inside Wilmington's Tea Wars, Patent Medicine Miracles, and the...

A Mother's Brutal Lesson: Why This 1876 Wife's Marriage Nearly Failed—Over...

44% Returns Promised & Fresh Oysters for 43¢: Life in 1876 Augusta

How a Maine blacksmith grew a 406-lb pig on kitchen scraps—and what it reveals...

Congressman Blaine Explodes on Democrats' Currency Flip-Flop: How Maine's...

1876 Augusta Dentist Advertised Laughing Gas for Teeth—And That Was the...

Valentine's Day 1876: When newspapers sold snake oil, revolvers, and revolution

How a Maine Newspaper Sold Revenge: The 'Foster' Serial That Demonized Native...

1876 Augusta: When Laughing Gas Was Cutting-Edge Dentistry & Everyone Sold Hair...

A Gentleman's Farewell: How Maryland Mourned Its Visionary Senator in 1876

How a Stammering-School Founder Wired America Together—From a Territorial...

Delaware in 1876: When Tea Merchants Competed Like Titans and the State Counted...

America's Most Famous Preacher in the Hot Seat: Henry Ward Beecher's Stunning...

What Ailed 19th-Century Maine: Patent Medicines, Oysters at 45¢, and French...

A Robber's Dying Confession: How a Small Maine Paper Lectured Morality in 1876

Inside Augusta's 1876 Marketplace: French Dry Cleaners, Oyster Bars & a...

A Wooden Leg, a Stolen Scalp & a Historian's Accidental Scandal: Maine's Oddest...

Oysters for 75¢, French Pressmen, & Why 1876 Augusta Feared 'Tramps'

Mississippi Farmer Warns Grange: Stop Planting by the Moon, Start Using...

Seven Masked Pirates Terrorize New York Harbor—Captain Shot Point-Blank, Crew...

A Delaware Senator Demands the Government Stop Wasting Money (While 800...

She Destroyed Her Marriage With Dirty Dishes—A 1876 Temperance Tale That Still...

March

1876: When Newspapers Looked Like Tax Forms (and Hair Restorer Ads Were Science)

"Are We Rome?" A Small Maryland Newspaper Warns America on Its 100th Birthday...

Inside a Maine newspaper's 1876 front page: Patent medicines, postal routes,...

Aunt Sophy's Brutal Birthday Advice—and Why This Mississippi Paper Called Out...

Secretary of War Caught Red-Handed: How Belknap's Wife Invented America's First...

Inside Augusta's 1876: When Nitrous Oxide Dentists & Hair Tonic Salesmen Built...

A Woman Masquerading as a Man on the Mississippi: The Carmi Chums' Shocking...

1876 Augusta: When Hair Restorers Had Arsenic & Money Orders Had Limits

Disease, Daring Acrobats & America's Birthday Party: What Worried Maine in 1876

When Your Horse Was Lame, Liniment Was the Cure: What Augusta Read in 1876

Inside an 1876 Maine Newspaper: Penny Stocks for Your Hair, Miracle Horse Cures...

When Dwight Moody Met His Match: A Jewish Scholar's Brilliant Takedown (1876)

1876 Maine Newspaper: When Hair Restorer Was Hot, Horses Got Better, and Yarn...

Theater, Oxygen Cures & Centennial Coins: What Portland Was Selling Itself in...

1876 Portland: When Fortune Tellers, Margin Trading, and Home Gyms Were All the...

1876: How Maine Farmers Beat Bad Soil (and Why Romance Died on the Ocean)

Inside a Maine Newspaper From America's Centennial Year: When a Horse Liniment...

Can a Wife Own Her Own Land? Arizona's Bold Answer in 1876

An Axe, Blood-Stained Cuffs, and a Widow's Murder: Inside a Brutal 1876 NYC...

A Poem About the Old South's 'Desolate' Ruins—Published Just as Reconstruction...

A Forged Will, a Scheming Sailor & One Lawyer's Race to Save a Poor Girl's...

Inside a 1876 Maine Newspaper: Patent Medicine Miracles, Unsolicited Horse...

How a Lost Button and a 14-Year-Old Battle Story Reveal 1876 Maine

March 24, 1876: The Secrets Hidden in Augusta's Mail Schedule—And Why Your Hair...

Gold Rush Fever: Inside Arizona Territory's Desperate Dash to the Black Hills...

1876: A Crushed Cop, Warring Doctors & a Chinese Admiral's Fortune—One Page,...

Arkansas Picks Its Future (And Every County Thinks They Should Run It)

Murder, Rubies & a Mysterious Uncle From India—This 1876 Serialized Mystery Had...

1876 Maine: When Hair Reviver Was 'Scientifically Tested' and Horses Got Cured...

A Spooked Marylander Mistakes Furniture for Ghosts (And Gets Philosophical...

March 31, 1876: How Augusta, Maine Sold Hair Tonic, Revolvers, and Dreams of...

April

Boston Dreams Meet Arizona Reality: 150 New Englanders Head West to Build a...

Secret Documents, Missing Evidence, and a President's Loyal Secretary: The...

1876: While America Prepares to Turn 100, a Maine Newspaper Celebrates Love,...

1876 Wilmington: When Seeds, Trains & Tapeworm Medicine Filled the Front Page

A Customs Officer, $22,000 in Gold, and a Deathbed Confession in Ceylon: The...

New Newspaper, Old South: Mississippi's Post-Reconstruction Business Class...

1876 Wilmington: What $1 Could Buy (and Why Farmers Were Obsessed With One...

Grant's Inner Circle Caught Running Secret Police Against Congress—The...

Inside the Belknap Impeachment: When Congress Brought a War Secretary to Trial

A Printer's Secret in 1876 Kansas—And the Mystery That Consumed Him

1876 Augusta: When Dentists Used Laughing Gas & Hair Was Big Business

The Phantom Castaway & the Railway Car Surgeon: Two Horrifying Tales from 1876...

From 1876 Augusta: Nitrous Oxide Dentistry, 3-Cent Hair Ruches, and the...

Delaware's Dead: Why a 1876 Gazette Page Is 90% Probate Notices—And What That...

Brazil's Emperor Crashes America's Party: How Grant's Cabinet Bungled a Royal...

Arkansas Reels from River Floods While Salt Lake City Powder Magazines...

How a Widow's Signature Put $1.6 Million Under One Man's Control—Delaware,...

Senator Bayard Under Fire: Delaware's Most Prominent Politician Defends His...

Two Cousins, One Crown, Impossible Hearts: A Colonial Love Triangle on the Eve...

How an 1872 Law Still Controls Your Land—Arizona's Mining Blueprint, Then and...

Copper Mountains & Catholic Priests: What 1876 Arizona Reveals About America's...

Caught Red-Handed: How a New York Official Billed the Government $2.7 Million...

Arkansas's Fever Dream: Diamonds, Tornados & the Desperate Hunt for Northern...

How a Victorian Wife's Smoking Scheme Backfired Spectacularly—and What It...

A Medical Student's Desperation: Love, Hunger & Serialized Drama on the Dakota...

Why a Maine Farmer Thinks You're Feeding Your Pigs All Wrong (1876)

Frontier Justice in Arizona: When Settlers Formed Militia Against Apache Raids...

Centennial Fever Grips America (Plus: Why the Army Has Way Too Many Colonels)

Vanderbilt on His Deathbed: The Railroad King's Last Battle and $500,000 Gift...

May

Augusta's Pulse in 1876: What a Maine Newspaper Reveals About Life in America's...

A Rational Man Hears the Unholy Groan: 1876's Most Unsettling Ghost Story...

1876: What Augusta's Newspaper Reveals About Life Before Telephones (Hint:...

The Blue Glass Miracle Craze That Had America (and the White House) Convinced —...

A Desert Outpost Publishes the Law of the Land—And We See What Life Cost to Get...

Tucson 1876: Does the New York Herald Have the Moral Authority to Lead America?

100-Year-Old Blast: When a Dynamite Explosion Shook New York and Killed the...

Arkansas Claims 'Redemption' as Democrats Organize for 1876—But At What Cost?

A Stubborn Husband Gets His Comeuppance: Oxford Democrat, 1876

The Day America Bought Laughing Gas & Cheap Oysters: Augusta's May 1876

1876: A Maine Farmer's Guide to Asparagus, Corn Meal Patriotism & Why...

Romance in the Alps & a Mother's Lullaby: Inside the May 1876 Lexington...

When a French Scientist Met Apaches in Arizona—and Congress Fought Over Mail...

May 1876: Dallas Booms While Washington Scandals Rage—and a Chief's Lament Goes...

The Day America Showed the World Who It Had Become: The Centennial Exposition...

When a Widow's Gossip Feared Love: A Maine Love Story From 1876

Inside Augusta's Centennial Year: When Fresh Halibut Cost a Dime and Your...

Missouri's Hidden Mountains: Why This State Thought It Would Supply America...

Augusta's 1876 Secret: Why This Dentist Was Ahead of His Time (And What Socks...

Augusta, Maine 1876: Revolvers, Liniment, and Life-Size Photo Portraits—Inside...

Congressional Bombshell: How a Political Operative Admits to Signing Hundreds...

Corruption Scandal & Railroad Whistles: Arkansas in the Centennial Election...

One Nail Solved a Murder—and Hanged the Wrong Man First (Paris, ME, 1876)

Frontier Debt & Destiny: Inside Dakota Territory's First Newspaper (May 1876)

How Maine Farmers Turned Chickens Into Orchard Guardians (and Why the Great...

1876: Inside a Maine Newspaper's Bustling Front Page—When Druggists, Dentists,...

Arizona's Territorial Paper Covers the 1876 Centennial: 100 Years of America on...

How Democrats Traded Respectability for Racism: The Desperate Gamble That Lost...

Buckshot Justice & Heroic Rescues: Inside Fort Smith's Frontier Courthouse in...

A Woman's Mask: How One Maine Town Handled Heartbreak in 1876

Gold Rush Madness & Lynch Mob Justice: America's Dark Centennial Summer

June

Maine Farmers' Secret: How to Grow Better Potatoes, Make Butter Fast, and Shoe...

How Arizona's Boomtown Miners Shipped Gold by Stagecoach (120-Hour Journey...

A Horse Worth $1,000 and Five-Cent Silk Thread: Life in Centennial Maine

1876: When New York's Elite Raced Four-Horse Coaches to the Track (With Live...

How Arkansas Democrats Built the Machine That Would Rule the South for 100...

A Maine Newspaper's Moral Crisis: When a Young Man Must Choose Between $1M and...

Congressman Blaine Takes the Floor in His Own Defense—And It Gets Heated Fast...

100 Years Young: A Small Maine Town's Commerce in Centennial 1876

Apache Agent Under Fire (1876): A Frontier Scandal Letter That Changed...

Mississippi's Ambitious Centennial Project: Documenting 100 Years of America,...

High Society & Gunfights: The Day Polo Came to New York (and Nobody Knew the...

Arkansas Democrats Rally for Tilden: Inside the 1876 Convention That Preceded...

A Factory Accident, a Spinster's Secret Love, and Why This Maine Town Needed 20...

A River Town Rebuilds: Alexandria, Louisiana, June 1876—Horses, Credit, and the...

1876 Belfast: Maine Farmers Get the Brutal Truth About Bad Cows—and One...

A Maine Town's Commerce in 1876: What $25 Could Buy You (A Stallion)

Mississippi's Cotton Collapse: One Week in 1876 When Farmers Learned the Old...

1876: The Day Jerome Park Was So Crowded That Millionaires and Lords Fought in...

How Portland Celebrated America's 100th Birthday (With 4-Horse Allegorical...

An Apple Woman's Faith: How a Boston Street Vendor Taught a Stranger About...

Horse breeding, arson rewards & the dentist with 'painless gas': Inside a Maine...

How Maine's 1876 Wheat Boom Predicted America's Global Food Dominance

A $32-Per-Ton Silver Mine, a Corruption Scandal, and 300 Mormons: Arizona in...

Arizona Stakes Its Claim at America's Centennial: 1876's Battle for Territorial...

Can Tilden the Reformer Unite the Democrats? Inside the St. Louis Convention's...

Belknap Impeached, Black Hills Demanded, Custer Weeks Away: Congress in Crisis...

A Democrat Defends a Republican in 1876 Delaware—And It Actually Makes Sense

A Week Before the Centennial: How Augusta, Maine Looked on June 28, 1876

Inside a 100-Year-Old Milk Empire: When One Maine Farm Fed a Whole Market

When Dentists Sold Laughing Gas and Horses Had Better Pedigrees Than Most...

July

How the South Got Economically Colonized: A Mississippi Editor's 1876 Cry of...

A Lawyer's Wife Shoots Him Dead—And Her Self-Defense Conviction Reveals...

A Masonic Grand Master's 1876 Sermon: Cotton Farming, Lost Love, and Why...

How Portland Celebrated America's 100th Birthday (With Steamboats, Horse Races...

Wilmington's Centennial Fourth: Flags, Speeches, and the Tragedy That Darkened...

A Merchant's Warning from 1876: The Currency Crisis Nobody Learned From

"The Country Capable of All That Has Been Prophesied": A Freighter's Verdict on...

Inside the Legal Machinery That Would Crush Black Voting Rights: Mississippi's...

Congress Blames Itself (Sorta): The Custer Debate That Reveals America's...

Arkansas Dazzles Philadelphia: "This Is Southern Hospitality"—Our State Steals...

A Maine Captain's Haunting Account: How One Civil War Company Was Erased, Man...

A Desperate Plea for Reform: What Democrats Demanded in 1876—and Why They Lost...

The Potato Beetle Invasion of 1876—And a German Princess's Secret Marriage...

What Cost $7 a Year in 1876 Augusta? (Hint: Better Than Your Phone Plan)

A Mississippi Merchant Admits to $1,000 in Fraud—and the Church Made Him Pay It...

July 1876: Senate Debates Whether America Can Afford to Build—7 Million Dollars...

Arkansas Goes Global: How a Former Rebel State Wowed the World at America's...

An Orphan's Wrongful Exile: How One Small-Town Farmer's Mistake Broke Hearts in...

Can Maine Farmers Beat Philadelphia's Butter? Plus: The Hog Composting Secret...

Arizona Territory Goes Wild for the Centennial: Barbecues, All-Night Dances & A...

A Mississippi county votes again (1876): Schools, railroads, and Republicans on...

Trapped Below Deck: The *Mohawk* Disaster That Exposed Gilded Age Excess (July...

Arkansas Stole the Show at America's Centennial—And It Nearly Killed Visitors...

A Tiger, a Jealous Husband, and a Wife's Desperate Act: What Captivated Maine...

When $7 a Year Was Expensive & Morphine Cures Were Legal: Inside an 1876 Maine...

Don't Slaughter Your Sheep Yet: A Farmer's Crisis in 1876 Maine (Plus: A...

A Pay Inspector Fled to Chile With $20,000 in Gold—and Other Tales From Arizona...

From Express Wagon Driver to Partner: A Serialized Dream in 1876 Mississippi

A Midnight Battle on the Water: How One Yacht Snatched Victory from Five Rivals...

How Arkansas Tried to Unsnarl Land Ownership After the War—And Why Teachers...

August

A Mysterious Manuscript in the Mill: How One Schoolteacher Found Love in an...

A Dakota Territory Newspaper's Cash Crisis: How Frontier Papers Survived in 1876

Inside 1876 Maine Farms: Why One Tanner Refused Custom Orders (And Why That...

An 1876 Prospector's Wild Tale (and Why Prescott's Newspaper Wasn't Buying It)

August 1876: When Augusta Warned Citizens to Arm Against 'Tramps' & Sold Hair...

Cornelius Vanderbilt's Final Hours: The Railroad King Dictates His Legacy From...

August 7, 1876: Little Rock Democrats Nominate Their Slate—And Plot to Take...

A Shipmate's Brush With Cannibals: 1876 Maine Adventure Story That Still Grips

Week-Old News from Dakota: When Custer's Death Reached the Frontier (August 9,...

How One Cow Taught 1876 Maine Farmers to Prune Better (Plus: Why Russia Lost...

1876: Tilden's Furious Sermon Against 'Radical' Spending—and the Election That...

How Mississippi Drew Election Maps in 1876—And What They Reveal About the End...

The Madeleine Claims Victory as America Shows It Still Rules the Waves (August...

Free College in 1876? Arkansas Made Its Bold Bid for the Future

1876 Maine: Small-Town Justice, Framed Love, and the Doctor Who Visited Every...

Sixteen Years of Scandal: Democrats Expose the Corruption Crisis That Almost...

A Jammed Door Lock Changed Her Mind: 1876 Romance, Farm Ledgers & the Language...

Starving on Marrow and Beetles: A 71-Year-Old Gold Rusher Breaks 27 Years of...

Murder Charges, Democratic Revenge, and a Girl Who Out-Worked All the Men:...

A Cabinet Wife's Revenge: The Anonymous Letters That Toppled Grant's Attorney...

How Arkansas Democrats Nominated a Senator They Couldn't Control—And Stocked a...

Love, Fire & $2,000: Inside an 1876 Maine Newspaper's Victorian Heartbreak

The Black Hills Commission Arrives: How Dakota Territory Opened the Sioux's...

When Maine Farmers Fed Turkeys to Potato Bugs (and Built Better Homes to Keep...

Apache Gunfight & Deadly Windstorm Hit Arizona Territory—Plus the Centennial...

Inside a Reconstruction-Era Campaign Machine: How Mississippi Democrats...

Interior Secretary Facing Impeachment for $50,000 Real Estate Scheme—How...

1876: The Frontier Unravels—Sioux War, Reconstruction Politics & a Jail Break...

1876 Delaware: When Ice Delivery Costs 60¢ and Mail-Order Medicine Promised...

1876: Democrats Demand "Reform"—And Plot to Reclaim the South

Washington's Secret Letter Scandal: How a Cabinet Wife's Revenge Toppled an...

September

Sitting Bull's War Song Makes Print—And Custer's Last Stand Is Just Weeks Away

FRAUD ALERT: Arizona Territory's Census War—Did Officials Steal 10,000 Phantom...

"This Man Was Rewarded With a Court Seat for Corruption"—Hendricks Eviscerates...

When Portland Advertised Séances & Sold Pianos: Inside America's Centennial...

Inside the Factory That Built Maine: How One Mill Changed Everything (1876)

A Dakota Frontier Election Day Approaches: Hayes vs. Tilden, Plus the Indian...

Maine's Political Machine in Motion: See the Nominations That Will Shape...

Arizona's Reputation Crisis: One Casual Remark Nearly Ruins Prescott (1876)

Silver Riches & Stagecoach Misery: Inside Booming Arizona, 1876

The Blue-Eyed Marksmen: Inside America's Epic 1,000-Yard Rifle Battle (1876)

Augusta's Marketplace, 1876: When Fresh Halibut Cost a Dime and Patent...

1876 Augusta: How a Small Maine Paper Reveals the Gilded Age's Get-Rich-Quick...

The Democrats' Last Grand Argument Against Grant: How 1876's Most Scathing...

1876: Why Farmers Were Bankrupting Their Own Land—and Why Grant's Navy...

Inside Arizona's Silver Boom: $2,470 Per Ton and the Mines That Built the West...

1876 Augusta: How Fish Markets, Patent Medicines & Wall Street Brokers Sold...

Tweed, Tilden, and Murder in Utah: How 1876 America Exposed Its Deepest Sins

What Did Oysters Cost in 1876 Maine? (Plus: Furnaces, Spam, and Tramp-Proof...

She Charmed a Maine Merchant Into Love—Then Revealed Her Real Identity as a...

How 16 Scandals Made Democrats Demand Reform: The 1876 Platform That Almost...

How to Turn $10 Into $60 (And Other Dubious 1876 Wall Street Schemes)

How to Make Money on Wall Street (1876 Edition)—Plus Other Wild Advertisements...

1876 Augusta: When Fish Sold for 10¢/lb and Wall Street Promised to Turn $10...

Hell Gate's Final Hour: 294,000 Pounds of Dynamite Ready to Detonate Under New...

Only $11 to See America's Future: How Portland Got Centennial Fever in 1876

Should He Marry for Love or Pride? A Lawyer's Anguish in 1876 Maine

September 27, 1876: Democrats Demand Redemption—One Month Before an Election...

A Poor Man's Wife Got a Glimpse of Wealth—and It Changed Everything (1876)

1876 Maine Newspaper Reveals What Americans Were Actually Worried About...

1876 Augusta: Cheap Corsets, Loaded Pistols & the Art of Becoming Rich on Wall...

October

The Bank Collapse Eating Poor New Yorkers Alive—And Why Your Savings Account...

Wall Street con artists, miracle cures, and what mail cost in 1876—the ads tell...

A Centennial Love Story: Serialized Romance and Water Cure Advertisements from...

1876: How Druggists Fit Surgical Trusses & Other Forgotten Services—Plus Wall...

How a Mexican Horse Trick Could Save a Farm: 1876 Agricultural Secrets from...

Inside a Maine Newspaper from 1876: Post Office Hours, Patent Medicines & Wall...

What Augusta, Maine Wanted to Know (and Buy) on October 7, 1876

Five Dead in Harbor Fire: How a Candlelit Repair Job Became a Tragedy in 1876...

How Portland Chased America's Centennial Dream—and Brought It Home for 25 Cents

A Mother's Miraculous Rescue: The Untold Story of America's Deadliest Steamboat...

October 1876: Democrats Demand 'Reform'—And Accidentally Reveal Why the South...

1876: How One Texas Rancher Moved 40,000 Cattle & Why Maine Farmers Were...

How to Turn $10 Into $20: A Wall Street Scheme Reaches Rural Maine (1876)

1876 Maine: $500 Bounty for Arsonists, Stock Schemers, and Five-Cent Cologne

Last Stand: Inside the Republican Panic as Louisiana's Reconstruction Dreams...

Three Rail Companies Go to War Over Your $11 Centennial Ticket—Plus the...

How a Maine Dentist, Shaker Cures, and a Pirate's Treasure Tale Reveal 1876...

October 1876: Democrats Catalog 16 Years of GOP Scandals as America Prepares to...

How to Catch a Lumber Thief Using Your Dog's Nose: October 1876 Belfast

Inside Augusta's 1876 Network: Telegraph, Money Orders & the Infrastructure...

Inside a Centennial Newspaper: The Day Maine Advertised 1-Cent Underdresses and...

October 1876: 'War Clouds Dissolving'—But Europe's Diplomats Were Lying

1876 Augusta: Where You Could Mail Money for 10 Cents, Buy Hair Restorer...

1876: How Maine's Merchants Sold the American Dream—One 10-Cent Ad at a Time

A Maine Newspaper From 1876: When Shoes Cost 50 Cents and Hair Restorer...

Maine's Forgotten Cash Crop: Why Your Great-Great-Grandmother Made Money From...

1876 Augusta, Maine: When a Drug Store's 'Careful Selection' Was Revolutionary...

1876: Augusta's Lost World of 90-Cent Beauty Balms and International Money...

Life Insurance Collapse: How Gilded Age Bankers Faked Billions (and Got Away...

The Last Train to History: How Maine Rushed to See America's Greatest Birthday...

A Vengeful Ghost Follows a Man Home: The Terrifying Serial Story That Haunted...

November

What Cost 21 Cents in 1876? Inside a Maine Newspaper's Bustling Marketplace

Election Week, 1876: See How Augusta's Merchants Advertised While Democracy...

Inside a Maine Newspaper's Bustling 1876 Marketplace—With a $500 Arson Mystery

Augusta's Front Page on Election Eve 1876: No Politics, Lots of Hair Tonic and...

Election Day Eve 1876: 100,000 Cheer Tilden's Promise to Heal America (Little...

Election Day 1876: How a Small Iowa Paper Fought the Civil War All Over Again

A Widow Alone: How One Frontier Woman Held Off 20 Warriors with Two Shotguns...

Election Day 1876: While America Votes, Portland is Selling Overcoats, Islands,...

The Bee King Who Built Better Hives (and Why Those French Cave Artists Were...

Hair Restorers, Tontine Schemes & Patent Medicine Ads: Inside a Maine Newspaper...

1876: A Governor's Wild Ride Into Apache Country—What He Found Will Surprise You

DISPUTED: How Tilden Lost the Presidency in Real Time—The 1876 Election...

While America Waits for Election Results, Portland Goes Wild for Culture (Nov....

Small-Town Scandal: How a Maine Pastor Got His Revenge with Fence Biscuits...

A Stagecoach Murder and Surprise Candy Pulls: Inside Dakota's Newest Newspaper...

How Maine Farmers Beat Western Competition (Hint: It Involved Better Bulls and...

Maine's Busiest Day: Inside an 1876 Small-Town Newspaper That Connected a...

1876 Maine: When Hair Dye Killed You, Home Jobs Were Scams, and Your Boots Cost...

Election Day 1876: When Sherman & Hayes Watched the South Count—and Democracy...

1876 Portland Oddfellas Fair: Knitting Machines, Patent Medicines & 15-Cent...

A Prussian Deserter, a Yankee Peddler, and a Vanishing Heiress: The Immigrant...

A New Frontier Paper Launches as America's Democracy Teeters: Canton, Dakota...

Maine Farmers Were Warned Not to Leave Home (1876) — And Nobody Listened

Inside Augusta's Bustling 1876: When Custom Shirts & Furnaces Were the Hot...

Inside a Maine Newspaper from Election Week 1876: Postal Schedules, Hair...

Inside the Chaos: How Louisiana Rigged a Presidential Election, One...

Portland's Great Entertainment Battle: Opera Houses, Knitting Machines & Pants...

A Forged Will, A Jailed Innocent, and a Detective's Race Against Time—1876...

Outlaws Sentenced to Life, Hayes Declares Victory, and Dakota Burns: Nov. 1876...

What Makes a 'Snug Farmer'? Belfast, Maine Explains (Nov. 30, 1876)

December

Disputed Votes in Arizona, Disputed Votes in America: How One Territory's...

Before the FDA, Before the IRS: Inside Augusta, Maine's December 1876

The Room Where Reconstruction Ended: Inside Louisiana's Explosive 1876 Election...

When Ole Bull Came to Portland: How One Newspaper Captured December 1876's...

Valley Forge's Frozen Hell: The Essay That Made America's Founding a Myth

Frozen Dakota, Three December Weddings & the Frontier's Darkest Secret (Dec. 6,...

How Maine Farmers Turned Ocean Kelp Into Million-Dollar Harvests (1876)

December 1876: Coffee for a Dime, Court Scandal in Wilmington, and Why...

A Widow's Firewood & the Secret to Saving Drunkards: Mississippi, 1876

When New Orleans Raced Horses and Ministers Debated Democracy (Dec. 10, 1876)

December 1876: When Ole Bull Came to Portland—and Other Gilded Age Wonders

Grant's Deathbed Confession: 'I Made Mistakes' — His Final Words to Congress...

Santa Claus Comes to Dakota Territory: How a Frontier Town Celebrated Christmas...

When a $5,600 Budget Exposed Fertilizer Fraud: Inside 1876's Agricultural...

The South Reclaims Itself: Wade Hampton Takes Office as Reconstruction Crumbles...

Twelve Men Vie for One Job: Inside a Reconstruction-Era Election Gone Wild

The Last Stand: How Louisiana's Sealed Votes Ended Reconstruction (December...

When Ole Bull Came to Portland: A Musical Moment from 1876 (and Why It Mattered)

The Case That Haunted a Man for 11 Years—Until a Sailor Walked Into the Post...

When Santa Came to Dakota: Christmas, Accidents & Survival on the Frontier...

How 1876 Maine Farmers Turned Swamps Into Gold—And Why Their Vinegar Tasted...

Election Chaos and Christmas Shopping: Inside the Day America's Electoral...

The Christmas Week America's Presidency Fell Apart—A Mississippi Paper Captures...

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

A Man Fell 50 Feet From a Roof and Walked Away: Christmas 1876 in Worcester

Day After Christmas 1876: When Department Stores Were Tourist Attractions &...

The South's 'Redemption' Begins: Murder, Elections & the End of Reconstruction...

How the 'Great American Desert' Stole Texas's Beef Crown (and Why It Matters)

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

December 30, 1876: How America Just Beat Switzerland at Its Own Game...

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