On This Day: September 13 — Century Dispatch

A 600-Mile Horseback Ride, A Wealthy Man's Mysterious Death, and a Balloon Over the Mountains—Hazard, Kentucky, Sept....

The Hazard herald (Hazard, Ky.)

The Christian Who Blew Shofar & The Man Who Chose Prison Over His Two Wives

Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)

1906: Free Train Tickets to Buy a Piano & A $85 Steinway

The Loup City northwestern (Loup City, Neb.)

When Democrats Abandoned Their Party for McKinley—And a Political Leader Was Beaten in the Night

The Indianapolis journal (Indianapolis [Ind.])

Why Sacramento Real Estate Cost Just $25 an Acre in 1886—and What That Land Is Worth Today

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

The Democrats' Last Grand Argument Against Grant: How 1876's Most Scathing Platform Predicted Reconstruction's End

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

One Year After Appomattox: A Kansas Newspaper Declares War on Reconstruction Compromise

White Cloud Kansas chief (White Cloud, Kan.)

The Secret Story Behind Fort Sumter's Fall — Finally Revealed

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Atlanta Won, McClellan Lost: How Ohio's Newspapers Turned the Election on September 13, 1864

Cleveland morning leader (Cleveland [Ohio])

Charleston Burns: Union Army Celebrates Victory Over Secession's Cradle (Sept. 1863)

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Lee's Army Marches North—Cincinnati Under Siege—Antietam Just Days Away

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

Stephen Douglas's Final Call to Patriots: A Democrat's Last Letter Supporting Lincoln's War (Sept. 1861)

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

A $240,000 bet on the Mississippi: How 1856 America dreamed big about infrastructure

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

Britain's Free Trade Triumph & America's Dread: A London Correspondent Predicts 100 More Years of British Dominance (He...

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