On This Day: August 26 — Century Dispatch

The Pacific's Deadliest Summer: When Rescuers Became the Rescued (Aug. 26, 1927)

Douglas daily dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.)

When North Carolina Cheese Beat the Yankees (& Coolidge Drove Through Hell for Church)

Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)

Coaching Parade at 6,300 Feet: When America's Elite Staged Theatrical Spectacles on Mount Washington

Among the clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.)

South Dakota 1886: Wheat Harvests, Balloon Ascensions & the Art of Frontier Self-Making

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

Inside a Reconstruction-Era Campaign Machine: How Mississippi Democrats Organized to End Federal Rule (1876)

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

August 1865: Johnson Digs In, Lee Hides Out, and a Gold Speculator Vanishes with $250K

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

August 1864: Grant Tightens the Noose—Lee's Generals Fall at Petersburg

The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])

Boston Brags About Its Wealth While Portland Recaptures Escaped Rebels (August 1863)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Italian Youth Storm Garibaldi's Cause While Washington Gambling Dens Bilk Officers Blind

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Mutiny in the Union Army + The First Flag Captured from Yankees: A Confederate Victory Lap (August 26, 1861)

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

1856 Davenport: When a River Town's Business Directory Told America's Future

Daily Iowa State Democrat (Davenport, Iowa)

A General's Gamble: When Zachary Taylor's Savior Got Court-Martialed by Polk

American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper (Baltimore, Md.)

A $3M Maryland Bet on Canals and Railroads—Plus the Dark Side of 1836 Progress

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