On This Day: June 5 — Century Dispatch

SPEED RECORD: Chamberlain's Bellanca Races Lindbergh's Ghost—With a Dramatic Twist at the Runway

The Cordele dispatch (Cordele, Georgia)

Bombs, Missing Evangelists, and Supreme Court Judges: A Wild Saturday in 1926

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The Hotel Desperado Who Almost Got Away & A 9,400-Mile Horseback Ride

Deseret evening news (Great Salt Lake City [Utah])

Did the Pope Secretly Back the Confederacy? A 1896 Omaha Paper Says Yes—With Documents

The American (Omaha, Nebraska)

When a President Overrules His Treasury Secretary's Resignation (And Wins)

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

How Arkansas Democrats Built the Machine That Would Rule the South for 100 Years—All in One Day of Conventions

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

One Year After Appomattox: Congress Fights Over Confederate Honor While France Mobilizes for War

Baltimore daily commercial (Baltimore, Md.)

When Sherman Exploded: The General's Furious Letter That Shook Washington

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

The Union's Secret Weapon: How America Invented the Income Tax (and Why Rebels Fled Underground to Avoid It)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

A Prussian General's Mercy & a Confederate's Ruin: How Worcester Read the Civil War in 1862

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Soldiers Wanted Immediately: How Civil War Recruitment Took Over New York's Newspapers

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

A Nation Gambling & Racing the Clock: What June 1856's Ads Reveal About America Days Before the System Broke

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

A Rejected Diplomat and a Collapsing Nation: How America's Last Peace Offer to Mexico Failed—and War Became Inevitable

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