On This Day: April 5 — Century Dispatch

Fleeing Peking: When America's China Adventure Began to Crack (April 5, 1927)

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

The Last Words of America's First Public Enemy (Plus Presidential Puppies!)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

1906: Nebraska Mayor Loses Despite Keeping Saloons in Line + $5,000 Court Case Finally Ends

The frontier (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.)

Inside a Connecticut Department Store's 1886 Sales War: Kid Gloves, Electric Gossamer Capes & Desperate Discounts

Morning journal and courier (New Haven [Conn.])

1876 Wilmington: When Seeds, Trains & Tapeworm Medicine Filled the Front Page

The daily gazette (Wilmington, Del.)

Freshet, Amnesty, and the Color Line: America's Reconstruction Chaos, April 5, 1866

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 1865: 'Poor whites' revelation & flowers blooming from Civil War battlefields 🌸

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Snow and Steel: Grant Arrives at the Front as Vermont Prepares for Final Push (April 1864)

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

A Jeweler's Skull Crushed by a Hidden Club: The Sensational Princeton Murder That Shook New Jersey—Plus Election Day as...

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

Last Call for Confederate Volunteers: New Orleans' Final Recruitment Drive Before Union Invasion (April 1862)

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

April 5, 1861: Evansville's Last Day of Peace (Before Everything Changed)

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

April 1856: A Nation Selling Its Future—Slaves, Settlers, and the Mail Routes of a Fracturing Republic

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

The Day Tyler's Inner Circle Got Roasted in Print (1846): Political Satire Before Twitter

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

1836 Washington: When Life Insurance Cost $2, French Debts Lasted 36 Years, and Everyone Wanted Imported French Hair...

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