On This Day: November 8 — Century Dispatch

Secret Millionaires' Lobby Caught? Tax Commissioner Grilled in 1927 Estate Tax Fight

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: Prison Break, Murder Trial Scandal & the Witness Who Couldn't Spell His Date's Name

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Mark Twain's Fake Family Tree: Pirates, Drunks & Highway Robbers (1906)

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

The Sultan's Treasury Is Collapsing, and Europe Is Quietly Arming for War (1896)

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

Cleveland's Inner Circle Dodges Scandal (and Why His Wife Ties His Shoes)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Election Day 1876: While America Votes, Portland is Selling Overcoats, Islands, and Henry Ward Beecher

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

The Day the South Realized Its Plan Failed: Satirist Nasby on the Election That Changed Reconstruction

White Cloud Kansas chief (White Cloud, Kan.)

November 1865: Republicans Crush 'Copperheads' as Wirz Awaits the Gallows

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

ELECTION DAY 1864: Lincoln's Last Stand, Rebel Spies in Chicago, and a City on the Brink

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

When 803 fugitive slaves sparked a civil war: What the 1862 census really said

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Federal Judge Admits Defeat: Military Power 'Must Prevail' Over Courts (Nov. 8, 1861)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

The Day Before the Election That Split America: Why Federal Contracts Mattered More Than Ballots

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

The Day Europe's Food Crisis Hit the Headlines: Grain Soaring, Ireland Starving, and America Becomes the Savior

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