On This Day: August 16 — Century Dispatch

The Day Before: Sacco-Vanzetti Arguments & a Juror's House Blown Apart at 3:30 AM

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: America Conquers the Skies While Rockefeller Jr. Hosts Publishers (& a 58-Year Musical Comeback!)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

The Last Wolf's $29 Million Land Deal — When West Virginia's Wilderness Became Gold

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

Lord Chief Justice Arrives in New York—And He Won't Comment on America's Silver Crisis

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

California's Great Land Rush: When 4,560 Acres Was the Deal of a Lifetime (1886)

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])

Sixteen Years of Scandal: Democrats Expose the Corruption Crisis That Almost Toppled Grant (1876)

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

Philadelphia, 1866: When the North Cheered a Copperhead & Almost Undid the Civil War

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: Why Arkansas Newspapers Were Obsessed with British Slavery Statistics

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

Sold! A Cure-All Bitters, Civil War-Era Spiritualism & Killer Goats in 1864 Washington

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Women, Gingerbread & Cavalry Charges—Inside Occupied New Orleans, August 1863

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

"To Arms!" — August 1862: When Ohio Newspapers Stopped Pretending the North Could Win Without Drafting

Ashtabula weekly telegraph (Ashtabula, Ohio)

Occupied New Orleans, August 1861: War Tightens Its Grip—and the Police Still Arrest Petty Thieves

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

The $330,000 Plan to Fix America's Greatest River—and Other Schemes from 1856

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

A Street Fight Over a Mysterious Page: Sunday Dispatch Launches Scandalous Historical Romance (1846)

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

Virginia's Great Westward Dash: Why This 1836 Newspaper Shows the South Leaving Itself Behind

Richmond enquirer (Richmond, Va.)