On This Day: August 2 — Century Dispatch

A Caribbean Island in 1927: Horse Auctions, Hollywood Dreams, and Strict Gun Laws

St. Croix avis (Christiansted, St. Croix [V.I.])

The immigrant writer who invented 'melting pot' dies, plus a $17M bus gamble

Yidishes ṭageblaṭṭ = The Jewish daily news (New York, N.Y.)

When the Odd Fellows Party Turned Into an Armed Showdown (and the Sheriff Just Left)

Watauga Democrat (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.)

A Bacteriologist Infected Himself (And Survived) — Plus a Brawl Over Ballots in White Plains

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

Why Thomas Jefferson's Broke Great-Granddaughter Lost Her Patent Office Job—Plus Martha Washington Makes History

The Washington critic (Washington, D.C.)

A Dakota Territory Newspaper's Cash Crisis: How Frontier Papers Survived in 1876

Lincoln County advocate (Canton, Dakota Territory, [S.D.])

The Crater: Inside the Failed Mining Assault That Nearly Broke the Union Army

The evening telegraph (Philadelphia [Pa.])

Admiral Porter's Victory Report: How the Navy Cracked Vicksburg Wide Open

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

While the Civil War Rages: Worcester's Booming Furniture Business (Aug. 1862)

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Final Poem—And Why 1861 America Was Obsessed With Mail-Order Strawberries

Worcester daily spy (Worcester [Mass.])

Hidden Gold Rush: The Messy Court Battle Over California's Quicksilver Mines (And Why Washington Cared)

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

A Prisoner Drags His Executioner to Hell: Vigilante Justice on the 1846 Frontier

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