On This Day: April 2 — Century Dispatch

Whiskey, Jealousy, and Hidden Police: A Murder Case Exposes Prohibition's Chaos in 1927 Richmond

Richmond planet (Richmond, Va.)

When German Warships Carried Bananas: A 1926 Tale of Swords to Plowshares

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

Half a Million Coal Miners Walk Off the Job - And Topeka Politics Gets Nasty

The Topeka state journal (Topeka, Kansas)

Turkeys Got Fat on Charcoal (and Other Farm Secrets from 1896 Nebraska)

The Sioux County journal (Harrison, Nebraska)

When Electric Trolleys Beat Horse Cars: Washington Debates the Future (1886)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Secret Documents, Missing Evidence, and a President's Loyal Secretary: The Whiskey Ring Scandal Reaches Congress

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

One Year After Appomattox: America Tears Itself Apart Over What Freedom Means

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 2, 1865: Grant's 'Much Hard Fighting' Begins the Campaign That Will End the Civil War

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

April 1864: Grant's armies mobilize, Illinois erupts in anti-war violence, and Lincoln's Reconstruction begins

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

French Princes Who Fought for Lincoln Just Left America—Here's Their Secret War

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

New Orleans at War: Inside the Final Weeks Before the Union Takeover (April 2, 1862)

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

Fort Sumter Just Fell—But Nashville's Newspapers Still Want to Sell You Coal Oil Lamps

Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)

April 1856: New Orleans at Peak—Before the Blockades Choked the Port

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

Why Indiana's 1846 Constitutional Convention Fight Reveals America's Slavery Crisis (and Why It Failed)

Indiana State sentinel (Indianapolis)