On This Day: August 8 — Century Dispatch

Gunfire on the High Seas, Wheat Prices Soaring, and Coolidge's Secret Navy Plans—August 8, 1927

The Bismarck tribune (Bismarck, N.D.)

1926: Alabama Governor's Race, Murder Mystery Reopened & That 8¢ Newspaper

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

When Kansas Farmers Demanded Justice: The Secret Petition That Shook Barber County

Barbour County index (Medicine Lodge, Kan.)

The Boy Orator Takes the Stage: How Bryan's Wife, His $20 First Case, and a Superstition Shaped 1896's Bombshell...

Lake Charles commercial (Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish, La.)

When Ireland Nearly Exploded Again: The August 1886 Crisis the English Hoped Pageantry Could Fix

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

A Shipmate's Brush With Cannibals: 1876 Maine Adventure Story That Still Grips

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Steamboat Explodes in Fiery Racing Disaster; 15 Dead—and Cholera Ravages the North

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

Officer's Letter: Confederate Army 'Playing Out' in Tennessee as Desertions Mount

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

August 1862: While the Civil War Raged, Connecticut Debated Tree Destruction and Sheep Dogs

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

Inside a Border-State Newspaper as America Burns: What Cumberland, Maryland Was Selling (and Hiding) in August 1861

Civilian & telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)

Inside the Fortune: New Orleans' Insurance Titans & the Merchant World Thriving (Just Before Everything Changed)

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

When a Penny Newspaper Tried to Save America from Whiskey: The Columbian Fountain, 1846

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

Inside the Slave Market at America's Capital: What a Washington Newspaper Revealed in 1836

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