On This Day: May 13 — Century Dispatch

May 13, 1927: Three Planes, One Dream—The Race to Cross the Atlantic Begins Tomorrow

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

🎈 The Norge Crosses the North Pole (Plus Warsaw Falls & a $150K Murder Trial)

The Washington daily news (Washington, D.C.)

British Warships Steam Toward Turkey + The 340-Pound Royal Wedding Cake

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

Russian Warships in China + American Spy Executed: May 13, 1896

Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, Conn.)

A Postal Clerk's Shame, Female Workers Under Federal Scrutiny—What Washington Was Fighting About on May 13, 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

When a French Scientist Met Apaches in Arizona—and Congress Fought Over Mail Contracts

Arizona citizen (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.])

The Freedmen's Bureau's Dark Secret: How Agents Exploited Those They Swore to Protect (Nashville, 1866)

The Nashville daily union (Nashville, Tenn.)

May 13, 1865: Sherman plots revenge, Mexican fever grips NYC, and Mrs. Perrine's scandalous rebel romance

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Grant Vows to Fight All Summer—The Moment America Believed It Could Win

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

Chancellorsville's Bitter Cost + the Bizarre Will of a French Suicide: May 13, 1863

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Lincoln's Surprise Norfolk: The Question That Changed the War

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

"The South Will Soon Be With Us"—What the Confederacy Predicted (and Got Wrong) on This Day in 1861

Cincinnati daily press (Cincinnati [Ohio])

Steamships, Lotteries & Land Warrants: A Nation Trading While It Burned (May 13, 1856)

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

"The Cry is Still They Come!" Mississippi Answers the War Drums—May 1846

The Port-Gibson correspondent (Port Gibson, Miss.)

From Jefferson's Library to Life Insurance: What Americans Bought in 1836

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