On This Day: August 5 — Century Dispatch

A Town Fights Back: When Citizens Ignored City Hall (And Won)

Putnam patriot (Putnam, Conn.)

1926: Coolidge mourns at family graves, dirigible tests new tech, and a woman gets jail time for adjusting her stockings

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

28 Hats, One Scandal: How a Husband Got Arrested in 1896 Alexandria

The Louisiana Democrat (Alexandria, La.)

A Michigan newspaper from 1886 captures a vanishing world: harvest balls, grain houses, and the final days of...

Weekly expositor (Brockway Centre, Mich.)

August 1876: When Augusta Warned Citizens to Arm Against 'Tramps' & Sold Hair Tonic With Poison in the Formula

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

August 1865: Indian War Ends, Admiral Captured (by Love), and a Rebel Agent Runs Off with the Cash

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Atlanta Burns & British Meddlers: Why America Said 'No Thank You' to Peace—August 5, 1864

Burlington free press (Burlington, Vt.)

July 4th's Double Miracle: Vicksburg Falls & Lee Retreats on America's Birthday

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Miraculous Escape: How the USS Queen Survived a Rebel Firestorm on the Mississippi

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

A Port City's Last Summer of Plenty: Insurance Reports & Slave Markets in 1856 New Orleans

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

Mobilizing for Mexico: How One Mississippi Town Learned War Had Arrived (August 5, 1846)

The guard (Holly Springs, Miss.)