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16 April 1912 / The Times Dispatch
On April 16, 1912, The Times Dispatch in Richmond reported the sinking of the Titanic across its front page. Its estimates and eyewitness accounts preserve the uncertainty of a story still unfolding. A newspaper records what people knew at that moment, before later histories could put the pieces together.
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11 November 1918 / The Washington Times
The Washington Times’ final edition of November 11, 1918, carried the armistice terms that ended the fighting in the First World War. The page records the immediate announcement and its conditions. Reading it today returns us to the moment when news of the ceasefire reached the public.
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21 April 1906 / The Sun
Three days after the San Francisco earthquake of April 18, 1906, New York’s The Sun devoted its front page to the disaster and the fires that followed. The dense columns show how distant readers encountered the catastrophe through reports arriving from a city still in crisis.
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