On This Day: May 2 — Century Dispatch

Blonde Widow Snarls Under Fire in Murder Trial—Plus Chicago's Thwarted Million-Dollar Kidnapping Plot

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

1926: Texas Banks Overflowing, Britain on Strike & Speed Records Shattered

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1906: When Professors Rode Rails to Teach Potato Farmers (And Prince Arthur Caught Nothing)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

X-Rays Will Cure Everything (They Won't): May 1896's Scientific Fever Dream

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

May 1886: When Seattle Miners, Railroad Barons, and Patent Medicine Salesmen Collided Over the West's Future

Seattle daily post-intelligencer (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.])

A Rational Man Hears the Unholy Groan: 1876's Most Unsettling Ghost Story Begins Here

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Spain Destroys Valparaiso While Congress Remakes Reconstruction: May 2, 1866

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

When Thoreau seemed selfish: A Vermont paper's 1865 verdict on America's most famous hermit

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

Congress Erupts: Should Black Soldiers Get Equal Pay? A Fight That Defines America's Future

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Inside Massachusetts's War Cabinet: How a Northern State United on Slavery's End (May 1863)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Cedar Falls, 1862: How a Tiny Iowa Town Thrived While America Burned

Cedar Falls gazette (Cedar Falls, Iowa)

Inside Honolulu's War-Era Newspaper: When Hawaii Learned America Was Fighting (Three Weeks Late)

The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands)

1856: A Day in the Life of the Antebellum South's Greatest Port—Before Everything Changed

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

The West Revolts: How America's Interior Declared War on Atlantic Favoritism (May 1846)

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

1836: When America's Budget Surplus Became a Constitutional Crisis

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