On This Day: May 12 — Century Dispatch

Why Even the President Couldn't Save This Senator (And Why Springfield's Music Festival Is Dying)

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

💥 Dynamite Death & the Governor's Dinner: Small-Town Minnesota, 1926

Grand Rapids herald-review (Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minn)

1906: When a Pastor Called Jesus a Socialist & Workers Shut Down the Great Lakes

The labor world (Duluth, Minn.)

Death Sentences in Havana: How Five Americans—Including a Kansas Journalist—Nearly Sparked War with Spain

The Wichita daily eagle (Wichita, Kan.)

Blood on Randolph Street: How a Nebraska Danish Paper Covered the Haymarket Bombing That Changed America

Stjernen (St. Paul, Howard County, Nebraska)

Romance in the Alps & a Mother's Lullaby: Inside the May 1876 Lexington Advertiser

The advertiser (Lexington, Miss.)

Massacre of the Loyalists: How Texas Hunted Down 63 German-Americans Trying to Escape to Mexico

The Shasta courier (Shasta, Calif.)

1865: 'Hang Jefferson Davis!' — plus the 41-year turtle tracking experiment

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

A Border Town's War: How Cumberland's Shopkeepers & Quartermasters Won the Civil War—One Sealed Bid at a Time

Civilian & telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)

A Vermont Soldier Meets a Millionaire Ex-Slave in New Orleans—and Exposes the War's Moral Crisis

Green-Mountain freeman (Montpelier, Vt.)

Recruiting Soldiers & Growing Cranberries: How Worcester Lived During the Civil War

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Nashville on the Brink: May 1861 Newspaper Shows a City Choosing War Over Union

Daily Nashville patriot (Nashville, Tenn.)

A Port City's Last Golden Day: New Orleans Shipping News, May 1856 (5 Years Before Secession)

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

How Congress Quietly Opened the West to Settlement—Three Days Before Declaring War on Mexico

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

1836: How America Learned to Move—Fast

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