On This Day: April 8 — Century Dispatch

Ford's Anti-Semitic Lawsuit, Pension Board Cruelty, and Dancing in the Milwaukee River: April 8, 1927

The Milwaukee leader (Milwaukee, Wis.)

1926: Teen Shot Over Dog, Bandit Hanged, Mussolini Nearly Assassinated

Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)

1906: The $15,000 Gold Heist & Uncle Joe's Salary Demands

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

Louisiana's Constitutional Overhaul (1896): How the South Rewrote Its Rules After the Civil War

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

Victory! How Senator Voorhees Finally Won His War for a Congressional Library (1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

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

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

One Year After Appomattox: The Chicago Tribune Captures a Nation Divided on What 'Reunion' Means

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 8, 1865: 'The End is at Hand' — Chicago Celebrates Lee's Crushing Defeat

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Iron Clads Ready: Union Assembles Fearsome Fleet to Retake Charleston (April 8, 1863)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Union Colonel Tells a Slaveholder to Get Lost—And Everyone's Watching (April 8, 1862)

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

April 8, 1861: New York's Last Normal Monday—Three Days Before Everything Changed

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

400 Slaves, 10,000 Acres: Inside the South's Confidence on the Eve of Civil War

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

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

The Arkansas banner (Little Rock, Ark.)