On This Day: July 31 — Century Dispatch

A Doomed Case, A Fiery Tragedy, and a Navy That Can't Agree: July 31, 1927

The Cordele dispatch (Cordele, Georgia)

When Mexico Banned Priests & Americans Fled to Canada for Cocktails

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: Russian revolutionaries cry 'Down with the emperor!' while Alaska holds its first election

The daily Alaskan (Skagway, Alaska)

Bryan's Populist Gambit & the Flood That Drowned 50: July 31, 1896

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

Cleveland's Secret Signature Reversal (and Why It Made Clerks Cheer)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

How Arkansas Tried to Unsnarl Land Ownership After the War—And Why Teachers Mattered More Than Generals in 1876

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

100 Dead in New Orleans, Cables Connect America to Europe, and Railroads Race West—July 1866

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: When Civil War Veterans Told 'Copperheads' to Shove It

The daily Gate City (Keokuk, Iowa)

Atlanta Under Fire: Sherman's Army Repels Hood's Last Great Assault (July 22, 1864)

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

North Carolina Under Siege: Inside the Confederacy's Darkest Hour (July 31, 1863)

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

July 1862 Honolulu: When Hawaii's Merchants Quietly Sided With the South

The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands)

War's First Months: See How Evansville Still Sold Cheese & Furniture (July 1861)

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

A Victorian Man Wagered He Could Write 1 Million Strokes in a Month—And Nearly Won

The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands)

July 1846: Marines, Medals & Murder in Washington City—A Snapshot of Antebellum Civic Life

Daily national intelligencer (Washington City [D.C.])