On This Day: July 8 — Century Dispatch

When Ford Apologized for Hate, Volcanoes Erupted, and Airlines Were Born (July 8, 1927)

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

War-time subway sabotage fears & a typhoid nightmare from cesspool contamination

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1906: Teddy Roosevelt Reshapes the Army While an Arctic Explorer Goes Missing

Arizona republican (Phoenix, Ariz.)

How America's Deadliest Monetary Battle Played Out in a Small-Town Louisiana Newspaper

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

When California Tried to Lure the President with a $20,000 Gold Invitation (He Said No)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Inside the Legal Machinery That Would Crush Black Voting Rights: Mississippi's 1876 Registration 'System'

The weekly Copiahan (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.)

The South's Newspaper Defends Johnson Against Congress—And Accuses Yankees of Defrauding Freedmen (July 1866)

The daily phoenix (Columbia, S.C.)

The Alabama Goes Down: How a 62-Minute Battle Changed the Civil War at Sea

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Lee's Army Drowning in Mud: Gettysburg's Aftermath Means the War Has Turned

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Dashing Spy, a Burning Town, and a Stolen Telegraph: Inside the Jessie Scouts' Secret War (July 1862)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Civil War Comes Home: A Louisiana Officer Falls, New Orleans Grieves (July 8, 1861)

New Orleans daily crescent ([New Orleans, La.])

Delaware's Lottery Fever, a 1,350-Mile Mail Route, and the Tangled Law of Western Land Grabs

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

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

Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])