On This Day: July 2 — Century Dispatch

A Boxing Legend's Tragedy, an American Tennis Champion, and Why Paris's Heat Wave Forced a Commander Into the Wrong...

Brownsville herald (Brownsville, Tex.)

1926: When Black America Told Both Parties 'We're Done With Your Promises'

The monitor (Omaha, Neb.)

The Cadet Who Broke His Own Leg & Utah's Million-Dollar Water Dreams

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

"Banks Have Wrecked the Country": A Senator's Explosive 1896 Indictment of Wall Street

The Nebraska independent (Lincoln, Nebraska)

Treasury Secrets & Horse Racing Fortunes: Inside Washington's July 1886

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

A Lawyer's Wife Shoots Him Dead—And Her Self-Defense Conviction Reveals America's Dark Marriage Laws

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

The $62,000 Man: Worcester's 1865 Income Tax Reveals a City of Millionaires (and One Dollar Earners)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Train Plunges Into Hudson River, Plus NYC's Seedy Underworld Exposed (July 1865)

New York dispatch (New York [N.Y.])

A Soldier's Farewell Letter (That Will Break Your Heart): July 1864's Most Powerful Tribute

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

The Tide Has Turned: Lee Retreats, Mexico Falls to France, and Sojourner Truth Gives Thanks (July 2, 1863)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

"75 More Young Men Wanted": How Worcester Answered the War's Desperate Call for Soldiers—July 1862

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

July 1861: When New York's Newspapers Became Weapons of War—Patent Medicine Ads and All

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

New Orleans at Peak Prosperity: A Port Built on Cotton and Slavery, Just Years Before Its Fall

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

When Even Importers Wanted Tariffs: How America's Merchants Changed Their Minds (1846)

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