On This Day: February 6 — Century Dispatch

Kellogg's Last-Minute Shanghai Gambit: Can Diplomacy Stop a Chinese Civil War?

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The Bakery Driver vs. The Million-Dollar Will: A 1926 Inheritance Scandal

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

1906: When a Senator Called His Own Party Unconstitutional

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

How America's 51,000 Postoffices Nearly Went Bankrupt (And Why That Mattered)

Sacramento daily record-union (Sacramento [Calif.])

How a Preacher's Sermon Moved 700 People to Tears—And Another Pastor's Secret Destroyed His Life

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

Eight Months After Appomattox: Congress Battles Over Reconstruction While the South Already Reclaims Power

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

1865: Massachusetts lawmakers scramble for unanimous slavery vote & a fiery senator's last stand

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Maine Boy's Broken Leg and the Birth of Tort Law: How One 1863 Lawsuit Changed Everything

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

"We care not whether he's Northern or Southern"—a radical wartime newspaper makes its case for what America should...

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

Six Weeks Before War: What Shreveport's Merchants Were Selling on February 6, 1861

The south-western (Shreveport, La.)

100 Merchants, 20 Ships Departing: New Orleans in 1856, Before Everything Changed

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

1846: When America Debated Going to War with Britain—And Why Steam Ships Changed Everything

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

February 1836: When a Parisian dentist and a slave trader both advertised in Washington—and what it reveals about...

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