On This Day: May 19 — Century Dispatch

A Mother's 'Divine Duty': What 1927 West Virginia Feared Most About Modern Women

Pocahontas times (Huntersville, W. Va.)

1926: Sister Tries to Have Brother Committed (Twice), Doctors Refuse to Sign Papers

Le messager (Lewiston, Me.)

1906: 'Even to the cemetery' — earthquake kindness & labor's first political war

The labor world (Duluth, Minn.)

How California's Newspapers Invented Modern Propaganda (1896)

The record-union (Sacramento, Calif.)

President Cleveland Gets Marriage Congratulations (and Blushes) at White House Reception—May 19, 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

Augusta's 1876 Secret: Why This Dentist Was Ahead of His Time (And What Socks Cost)

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

One Year After Lee's Surrender, Republicans Fear Their Civil War Victory Is Slipping Away

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

May 19, 1865: When a $3 carpet saved a Pennsylvania marriage (and maybe a nation needed the lesson)

The Bedford gazette (Bedford, Pa.)

Blood-Stained Flags & Shattered Limbs: How One N.J. Paper Captured the Civil War's Brutal Reckoning

Monmouth herald & inquirer (Freehold, N.J.)

Grierson's Gamble: How 2,000 Union Cavalry Rode 600 Miles Through Mississippi—and Nearly Starved Doing It

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

War Creeps Into Daily Life: How May 1862 New York Recruited Soldiers While Selling Straw Hats

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

War Breaks Out—and Nashville's Merchants Just Keep Selling Flour: May 1861

Nashville union and American (Nashville, Tenn.)

New Orleans in 1856: Inside the Port City That Profits from Slavery (And Doesn't Hide It)

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

Congress Fortifies America (and Fort Sumter) as War with Mexico Begins—May 1846

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

Railroad at 60 Miles—and a Ring Owned by the Russian Tsar: Washington's May 1836

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