On This Day: May 15 — Century Dispatch

May 15, 1927: The Great Flood Claims Louisiana as Hoover Takes Command—and Oil Bosses Finally Cry Uncle

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

🇵🇱 800 Dead in Polish Revolution & A Hoosier Housewife's Derby Pick Will Surprise You

The Indianapolis times (Indianapolis [Ind.])

1906: Murder Mystery in Maine & 165,000 Still Fed Daily in San Francisco

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

Labor's Great Reckoning: Three Million Workers, Two Factions, and the Future of American Unions (May 15, 1896)

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

1,500 Guests, Gray Uniforms & a Legendary Band: Maine's Most Elaborate Military Gala Yet

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

The Day America Showed the World Who It Had Become: The Centennial Exposition Opens

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

100 Hours to New York: How New Orleans Raced to Rejoin America (via Railroad)

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

May 15, 1865: 'Coward!' Jefferson Davis captured in women's clothing

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Atlanta, May 1864: Sherman's Advance, A Judge's Farewell, and the South's Last Hopes

Memphis daily appeal (Memphis, Tenn.)

How Connecticut's Secret Powder Mills Won the Revolution—and Why No One Remembers Them

The Willimantic journal (Willimantic, Conn.)

A Hawaiian Pastor's Radical Sermon on When Rebellion Is Justified (1862)

The Pacific commercial advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands)

Maryland's Governor Denies Sneaking Conspirators Into His Bedroom—May 15, 1861

The daily exchange (Baltimore, Md.)

May 1856: How America's Railroads Connected a Nation on the Brink of Collapse

Washington sentinel (City of Washington [D.C.])

WAR FEVER: 15,000 Cheering Americans Pledge Their Lives to Mexico, May 1846

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