On This Day: August 12 — Century Dispatch

KKK Armed Mob Lines Connecticut Street—A Town Stands Its Ground (August 1927)

Putnam patriot (Putnam, Conn.)

When Clemenceau Called America's Debt Policy 'Out-Shylocking Shylock' 📰

The daily worker (Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y.)

1906: Russian Grand Duke dodges assassination bullets during 'routine' military drill

The Montgomery advertiser (Montgomery, Ala.)

Bryan's Big Night: The Speech That Could Reshape America (And the Flying Machine Pioneer Who Didn't Survive to See It)

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

When Harvest Balls Were Worth a 5-Piece Band: Rural Michigan, August 1886

Weekly expositor (Brockway Centre, Mich.)

How Mississippi Drew Election Maps in 1876—And What They Reveal About the End of Reconstruction

The weekly Copiahan (Hazlehurst, Copiah County, Miss.)

Secret Militia Orders and Freed People's Fury: America Fractures Over Reconstruction (Aug. 12, 1866)

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

1865: When a reporter got kicked off the world's biggest ship & 100 died in a Lake Huron disaster

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

When Fish Skins Replaced Windows: Arctic Wisdom & Civil War Conscription in 1864 Portland

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Auctioning the South: How One Arkansas Town Sold Land and Slavery in the Shadow of Gettysburg

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)

"Execute on Sight": The Desperate Orders Behind Confederate Collapse in Summer 1862

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

Romance, Theatre & Bootmakers: What Worcester Read While America Burned (August 1861)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Inside Evansville, August 1856: When a River Town's Ads Told the Story of a Divided Nation

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

Judge Hanged in Effigy: When a Kentucky Courthouse Became a Mob Court (1846)

Washington telegraph (Washington, Ark.)