On This Day: August 19 — Century Dispatch

Joy Riding Cost Tazewell County $2 Million—and a Child Paid the Price

Clinch Valley news (Jeffersonville, Va.)

When 2,000 calls per hour flooded a hospital (and other tales from 1926)

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

1906: The $10 Million Railroad Scandal That Rocked Wall Street

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

How a Revolving Shipbuilder, a Murdered Teenager, and a Flying Machine Collided in 1896's Money War

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

Dakota 1886: Temperance Wars, Railway Towns, and the Price of Frontier Life in Turner County

Turner County herald (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.])

Murder Charges, Democratic Revenge, and a Girl Who Out-Worked All the Men: Mississippi's 1876

The weekly Copiahan (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.)

When President Johnson Met His Supporters—and General Grant Showed Up to Watch

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

1865: The Great Cable Disaster—How a 2-inch wire sank the internet of its day

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

40 Miles Away: How a Pennsylvania Town Learned Invasion Was Real (August 1864)

Bedford inquirer (Bedford, Pa.)

A Confederate's Confession: The South's Broken Promises (As Told by a North Carolina Editor in 1863)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

How the U.S. Government Lost Track of 43,000 Horses (And $3.5 Million) — August 1862

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Should the North Fight for the Union or for Freedom? A 1861 Debate That Changed Everything

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

1856: Inside Evansville's Lost Riverboat Economy—What This Booming Port Reveals About Pre-Civil War America

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

1846: How the U.S. Built a Remote Island Fort (With Prefab Parts Shipped by Sea)

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

Crushed Knights & Desperate Sailors: What August 1836 Readers Found in Their Vermont Paper

Burlington free press (Burlington, Vt.)