On This Day: March 9 — Century Dispatch

Railroad Battle & A Race Against Death: How 33 Volunteers Kept a Young Man Breathing for 70 Straight Hours

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

📰 1926: Nine Dead in Mine Blast, Germany Plays Hardball, and Coke Costs a Nickel

The Cordele dispatch and daily sentinel (Cordele, Georgia)

1906: The Union Assassin Marked for Death (+ A Bomb Hidden in Hair)

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

1896: When High School Sports Got Organized (And a Mysterious Drowning in Maine)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Snore or Soirée? Washington's Most Boring Season Ever (Plus: General Sherman Reconciles With His Enemy)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

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

The Republican journal (Belfast, Me.)

One Year After Lee's Surrender: Congress Declares War on Johnson's Reconstruction—and Canada Braces for Invasion

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

March 9, 1865: Sheridan Captures Early's Army as Confederate Collapse Accelerates

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

A Woman and Child Burned Alive: The Detroit Riot That Exposed the North's Racial Divide (March 9, 1863)

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

IRON MEETS WOOD: Confederate Navy Scores Historic Victory as South Draws Comfort from French Revolution

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

While America Fractures, Arkansas Merchants Advertise Spring Fashion & Steamboat Schedules (March 1861)

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

Kansas Land Claims, the Potato's Secret History, and Why New York Was Exploding in 1856

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

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

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