On This Day: August 6 — Century Dispatch

Bombs in the Night: America Panics as Sacco-Vanzetti Deadline Looms—Plus Why Brownsville Thinks It's Better Than Dallas

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

When $500 Was a Fortune: A 1926 Tale of Steaks, Slingshots, and Surprise Aunts

Montgomery County sentinel (Rockville, Md.)

1906: High-Stakes Drama as Saratoga's Gambling Houses Go Underground

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

Campaign Knives & Town-Square Debates: How O'Neill, Nebraska Argued About Money in 1896

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

A Grand Hop at 6,293 Feet: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Mountain Resort (August 1886)

Among the clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.)

Cornelius Vanderbilt's Final Hours: The Railroad King Dictates His Legacy From His Deathbed

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

The British 'Baron's Son' Who Swindled All of Wall Street in 1865

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

Sherman's 200-Mile March: How Atlanta's Capture Changed the Civil War (and Cost McPherson His Life)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

How the Army Accidentally Invented Black Military Bureaucracy—and Why It Mattered

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

When a Small Arkansas Town Tried to Keep Living While the War Came Home (1862)

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

A City Going to War: What New York's Job Ads Reveal About August 1861

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

Inside New Orleans's Wealth Machine: The Insurance Ledgers and Merchant Lists That Reveal a City Built on Cotton

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

How America Nearly Went to War with Britain Over Oregon—and Solved It With a Single Line on a Map

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

Inside Washington's Slave Market: What the 1836 Intelligencer Reveals About the Capital

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