On This Day: January 20 — Century Dispatch

A Valley Drowns for Boston's Thirst: How Springfield Grappled With Progress in 1927

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

When a 58-year-old society woman beat up her attacker near the White House

The Washington times (Washington [D.C.])

1906: 'Has It No Shame?' — A Utah Editor's War on Mormon Power

Goodwin's weekly : a thinking paper for thinking people (Salt Lake City, Utah)

How a Man's Prank Gone Wrong Led to 'Unintentional Suicide' in 1896 Maine

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

In 1886 Nebraska, a Danish pastor asked: Why are Americans so spiritually shallow?

Stjernen (St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska)

January 1876: When Augusta's Fish Market and Photography Studio Were the Height of Local Commerce

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

A Serial Killer in Church Clothes: The Execution of the 'Modern Borgia' & America's Fractured Reconstruction

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Jan 20, 1865: Confederate plot to raid from Canada exposed as Fort Fisher falls

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

Mrs. Lincoln's Secret: Inside the Massive Soldiers' Fair That Took Over Washington

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Union's First Real Victories: Garfield Routs Rebels in Kentucky, McClellan Finally Ready to Move

The daily dispatch (Richmond [Va.])

A Convict's Confession and Prayers Erased: Memphis on the Brink of Secession (Jan. 30, 1861)

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

A 1856 Debate on Evolution, Women's Rights & God—100 Years Before Anyone Expected It

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

Going, Going, GONE!—Portsmouth's Epic 1846 Clothing Auction (Plus John Quincy Adams' Secret Book Club)

The New Hampshire gazette (Portsmouth [N.H.])

A Slave Trader's Ad and Winter Ice Boats: What Washington Was Really Selling on January 20, 1836

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