On This Day: July 16 — Century Dispatch

Vienna Burns: How a Workers' Uprising Toppled Austria's Justice Palace (100 Years Today)

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1926: When Arkansas Students Drew Maps for $8 & Baseball Pitchers Threw Perfect Games

The Calico Rock progress ([Calico Rock, Izard County], Ark.)

War, Wealth & White Mobs: When 150 People Were Put on Trains Out of Town

The Beatrice daily express (Beatrice, Neb.)

When Mr. Meek Tried to Cook Dinner (Spoiler: The Cat Ate Better Than He Did)

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

Printed at 8,293 Feet: The Newspaper That Served Millionaires Atop Mount Washington (1886)

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

July 1876: Senate Debates Whether America Can Afford to Build—7 Million Dollars and a Nation's Future Hang in the...

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

Inside Washington's Reconstruction Civil War: When Hisses Erupted Over a Gold Cane

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

1865: When stealing from your future brother-in-law seemed totally reasonable

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

Sherman Marches Into Marietta as the Rebel Invasion Collapses—The War's Turning Point Documented in Real Time

The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])

Vicksburg Falls: How One Iowa Town Celebrated the Turning Point of the Civil War (July 16, 1863)

Charles City Republican intelligencer (Charles City, Iowa)

Inside a Crumbling Confederacy: July 1862 Memphis Begs for Cotton and Soldiers

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Garibaldi Says He'll Fight for America—But Only if Lincoln Abolishes Slavery (July 1861)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Inside the ledgers of New Orleans' richest city (1856): Insurance profits, slave wealth, and five years before it all...

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

One Vote Saved America's Economy: The Tariff Battle That Funded the Mexican War (1846)

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

A Rhode Island Port City in Full Bloom: What Providence's Market Square Wanted in July 1836

Republican herald (Providence [R.I.])