On This Day: May 26 — Century Dispatch

Inside the Legal Crisis That Made Massachusetts Look Foolish (And Why One Judge Rode Home in a Sheep Car in 1852)

Springfield weekly Republican (Springfield, Mass.)

60,000 Communist fighters march through Berlin as global labor wars heat up

The daily worker (Chicago, Ill.;New York, N.Y.)

1906: Arizona Bachelor Proposes by Newspaper for $50 Wedding Contest Prize

The Williams news (Williams, Ariz.)

Spring 1896 in Nebraska: Bicycles, Irrigation Dreams, and Graduation Suits for $10.95

The North Platte semi-weekly tribune (North Platte, Neb.)

How Freed Black Southerners Were Deemed Failures—Even When They Owned Land | 1886

The Fairfield news and herald (Winnsboro, S.C.)

1876: Inside a Maine Newspaper's Bustling Front Page—When Druggists, Dentists, and Revolvers Fought for Your Attention

Daily Kennebec journal (Augusta, Me.)

One Year After Lee's Surrender: Freedmen Are Still Being Sold Into Slavery—And Johnson Is Freeing Confederates

Chicago tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

When British satirists ate crow: London's Punch apologizes for mocking Lincoln

Bedford inquirer (Bedford, Pa.)

Congress Investigates the Fort Pillow Massacre: A Nation's Reckoning Begins (May 1864)

Civilian & telegraph (Cumberland, Md.)

As Grant Closes In on Vicksburg, Richmond Squeezes Every Last Dollar From Its Citizens

Richmond Whig (Richmond, Va.)

How Methodist Preachers Outsmarted Frontier Rebels—and Other Tales from Wartime Worcester

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Washington's Real Estate Fever: How a City Thrived While the Nation Cracked Apart (May 1856)

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

Senator Benton's Bold Gamble: Can He Stop America From Claiming Too Much of Oregon?

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

Racing the Clock: How Americans in 1836 Were Obsessed with Speed (and Why It Mattered)

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