On This Day: December 5 — Century Dispatch

Five Deaths, a Bludgeoning, and Why the Senate Had to Hide from Coolidge

Imperial Valley press (El Centro, Calif.)

Murder, kidnapped agents & Charlie Chaplin's scandal: December 1926's wild headlines

South Bend news-times (South Bend, Ind.)

1906: Texas Cowboys Try to Lynch Black Leader on Kansas Train

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Runaway Train Carnage & a Town About to Flood: Disaster Doubles Down in 1896

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

Archbishop Blesses Irish Rent Strikes as Moltke Rattles War Drums: Empire Fractures, Dec. 5, 1886

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

Valley Forge's Frozen Hell: The Essay That Made America's Founding a Myth

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Bridge Collapse Kills Many in Ohio as Congress Battles Johnson Over Reconstruction

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

December 5, 1864: Sherman Closes In on Savannah—The South Trembles

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Grant's Greatest Prize: How Chattanooga Broke the Confederacy Open (Dec. 5, 1863)

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

A Willimantic Soldier's Account of Combat: 'Not a Battle, But Merely a Skirmish'—October 1862

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

December 1861: New Orleans Drills for War as a Boy Dies on the Rails

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

Omaha Lots for Sale, Homeopathic Doctors, and $10 Subscriptions: Life in Pre-War Davenport, Iowa (Dec. 5, 1856)

Daily Iowa State Democrat (Davenport, Iowa)

Little Rock, 1846: War Poems, Land Fever, and the Steamboat Wars

Arkansas state gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

Inside 1836 Washington: When a Steamboat Ticket Cost Less Than a Suit of Clothes

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