On This Day: July 17 — Century Dispatch

They Crashed Into a Tree and Became Heroes: The Wild Flight That Proved Commercial Aviation Was Real

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

1926: When a Girl Died Laughing and a Publisher Was Assassinated

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

When Elks Ruled Denver & Russian Peasants Burned Everything Down

Deseret evening news (Great Salt Lake City [Utah])

Nebraska Goes All-In for McKinley: Even Bryan's Home State Democrats Are Defecting (July 1896)

The Loup City northwestern (Loup City, Neb.)

Navy Scandal & Baseball-Playing Congressmen: Inside Washington's Summer of 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

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

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

Austria's Empire Collapses in Days: Sudowa Changes Europe Forever—July 1866

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

1865: When a Pastor Lost Everything on Wall Street & Freed Slaves Faced Vagrancy Arrest

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Sherman Crosses into Atlanta's Front Yard—And Johnston Has Run Out of Mountains to Hide Behind

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Gettysburg's Aftermath: A Confederate Editor's Quiet Admission That the South Might Lose

Semi-weekly standard (Raleigh, N.C.)

Truce & Trenches: How Union & Confederate Doctors Dined Together While War Raged (July 1862)

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

July 1861: How a Worcester Paper Fought Back After Bull Run—and Why One General's Name Should Have Alarmed the North

Massachusetts weekly spy (Worcester [Mass.])

July 17, 1856: Democrats Rally in Indianapolis as Kansas Burns—and a Scandal Surfaces

Weekly Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis [Ind.])

Horace Greeley's War Against War: How the Tribune's 1846 Manifesto Predicted the Civil War

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])