On This Day: August 21 — Century Dispatch

Pacific Tragedy Unfolds: Three Planes Vanish Over Open Ocean as Rescue Armada Races (August 21, 1927)

The Cordele dispatch (Cordele, Georgia)

🕵️ Detective vanishes in murder probe & Irving Berlin's secret return with 52 trunks

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

$2 Million Ship Doomed on Hawaiian Reef as Desperate Rescue Races from San Francisco

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

A Theater Tragedy, a Cholera Apocalypse, and Spain's $800-Page Revenge Demand: August 21, 1896

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

When Federal Jobs Were Political Prizes: Inside Cleveland's 1886 Patronage Machine

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

How Arkansas Democrats Nominated a Senator They Couldn't Control—And Stocked a River With 80,000 Fish

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

President Johnson Defends His Reconstruction Plan in Buffalo—One Month Before Everything Changed

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

The Great Navy Yard Sale: 63 Warships, $625K, & the End of America's River Fleet

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Lincoln's Desperate Plea to Soldiers: 'This Great Contest' Is About Democracy Itself—Plus a Foiled Copperhead Coup

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Harvard's President Was Born in a Farmhouse—And His Mom's Genealogy Was Wrong for 90 Years

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

Death Warrants & Desperation: Inside the Confederate Paper That Shows a Nation Cracking (August 1862)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

General Lyon's Last Stand: How a Doomed Charge Changed the Civil War

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

The Mississippi's Deep Challenge: How a $330,000 1856 Dredging Contract Reveals Pre-War America's Ambitions

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

A Whig Politician's Devastating Takedown: 'You've Betrayed Everything You Believed In' (1846)

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