On This Day: July 3 — Century Dispatch

Paris Nearly Crushed Byrd's Crew in Celebration—And a Pilot Died in Ottawa the Same Day

Evening star (Washington, D.C.)

The Evangelist, the Kidnapping, and the Grand Jury: America's First Religious Celebrity Scandal

The Alaska daily empire (Juneau, Alaska)

When Pearl Harbor hosted boat races and cholera cancelled championships

The Hawaiian star (Honolulu [Oahu])

Death by Tree, Death by Granite: A Day in Gilded Age America (July 3, 1896)

The Oregon mist (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.)

Someone Cut Off a Chinese Man's Queue in Lafayette Park—Washington's Racial Tensions Exploding

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

A Masonic Grand Master's 1876 Sermon: Cotton Farming, Lost Love, and Why Arkansas Clergy Rang Their Own Bells

Weekly Arkansas gazette (Little Rock, Ark.)

Portland Goes HUGE for the First Postwar Fourth of July—20,000 Cubic Feet of Hot Air Included

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

Grant Has Lee "by the Throat": How Union Cavalry Starved the South Into Surrender (July 3, 1864)

Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill.)

Meet General Meade: The Unlikely Hero Taking Command as Lee Invades the North

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

A Secret Bridge, 70,000 Logs, and Why McClellan's Army Was About to Collapse (July 1862)

The Portland daily press (Portland, Me.)

July 3, 1861: As the Civil War Begins, New York Still Plans Its July 4th Picnics (and Buys Tickets to See Albino...

New-York daily tribune (New-York [N.Y.])

Delaware Lotteries, Frontier Mail Contracts & the Last Days Before America Broke Apart

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

Sam Houston's Secret Fourth: A General, a Treasury, and the Last Peace Before Mexico

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