On This Day: May 16 — Century Dispatch

Murder, Marines, and Midnight Thieves: May 16, 1927's Perfect Storm of American Crime

New Britain herald (New Britain, Conn.)

Ice chunks nearly doom the first flight over the North Pole (May 16, 1926)

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

Murder Mystery in Maine: When Steam Gave Way to Suspicion (1906)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

When a Gunfight Nearly Stopped a Republican Convention: May 16, 1896

The Dalles weekly chronicle (The Dalles, Or.)

Anarchist Arrested, 3,000 Bombs Hidden: America's First Red Scare Explodes (May 16, 1886)

Savannah morning news (Savannah)

When a Widow's Gossip Feared Love: A Maine Love Story From 1876

Oxford Democrat (Paris, Me.)

Davis Goes to Trial (Maybe): How Washington Is Rewriting the Rules of War

The Evansville journal (Evansville, Ind.)

May 16, 1865: Jeff Davis Caught in Petticoats — 'The Most Terrible Sarcasm Ever Recorded'

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

"Ar'nt I a Woman?": How Sojourner Truth's Lost Speech Returned to Haunt America—1863

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Evansville, Indiana, May 1862: Life Goes On (While the Civil War Rages)

The Evansville daily journal (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.])

The Day Arkansas Chose War: A Governor's Message & the Humanity Hidden in the Classifieds (May 1861)

Arkansas true Democrat (Little Rock, Ark.)

Inside New Orleans' Busiest Day: 1856 Shipping Chaos Reveals a City at Peak Power (Before Everything Changed)

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

A Penny a Day for Sobriety: How One D.C. Printer Launched a Temperance Newspaper in 1846

The Columbian fountain (Washington, D.C.)

May 1836: Railroads vs. Canals, and a Darker Commerce in Human Beings

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