On This Day: August 20 — Century Dispatch

Last Hours for Sacco & Vanzetti: Desperate Lawyers Race Against the Clock (August 20, 1927)

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1926: When Ohio's Wet vs. Dry Senate Race Could Pick the Next President

The Calico Rock progress ([Calico Rock, Izard County], Ark.)

1896: Omaha Lights Up in Spectacle While America's Railroads Collapse

The Nebraska independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)

1886: When Bankers Feared Silver Would Crash America (And They Were Right About 1893)

The Mitchell capital (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.])

A Cabinet Wife's Revenge: The Anonymous Letters That Toppled Grant's Attorney General

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

An Irish Rebel Became a Confederate Hero—New Orleans Gives Him an Hour-Long Funeral (Aug. 20, 1866)

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

1865: When NYC's Biggest Financial Fraud Made Millionaires 'Walk Streets in Terror'

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

How Stone Age Bones & Civil War Politics Shared a Newspaper Page (Worcester, 1864)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Border Town's War: When Cumberland Sold Washington Prints and Processed Soldier Claims (1863)

Civilian & telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)

A 18-Year-Old Soldier's Last Letter Home—And Why an 1862 Clergyman Thought Prisons Needed Gardens

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

When Enslaved People Plotted with the British (and a Planter Found Out): 1861

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Bread So White It Never Molded: Daily Life in 1856 Iowa (Before Everything Changed)

Daily Iowa State Democrat (Davenport, Iowa)

Britain Just Abolished Its Trade Barriers—And Congress Is Furious About It (August 20, 1846)

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

1836: A Slave Trader and a Timber Tycoon Make Their Pitch in Washington—What the Front Page Reveals

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