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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/12

The clash between Congressional isolationists and the Roosevelt Administration was in full view yesterday when Navy officials answered senators’ questions about the new US military presence in Iceland and denied reports that US naval forces had engaged in combat with German vessels.But leaked, secret Congressional testimony suggests that a US Navy destroyer dropped a depth charge recently against a German submarine which menaced its rescue of survivors from a sunken British ship.Ed: It will later be

2:08

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/11

In the midst of the year-old Civil War, as Federal troops took control of New Orleans and Confederate General Stonewall Jackson racked up victories in Virginia, President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.It was a remarkable juxtaposition.Here was the federal government, expending blood and treasure to correct national sins of the past, while simultaneously providing millions of its people with a gateway to the future.As Lincoln said, “[T]he wild lands of the country should be distributed so

2:13

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/10

In 1835, showman P.T. Barnum purchased an enslaved woman named Joice Heth and presented her to audiences as George Washington’s 161-year-old former nurse.Was she real?Barnum had proof!When he bought Joice, he was given a document purporting to show that in 1727, five years before George Washington’s birth, Washington’s father owned a fifty-four-year-old enslaved woman named Joice Heth.What more do you need? Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

1:30

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/09

In the 1930s, the federal government was the answer to prayers for poor, unemployed young men.Those between the ages of 17 and 28 could enlist in the Civilian Conservation Corps where they could work, learn new, marketable skills, and earn $30 per month, with most of that going to their families.And they would travel and receive food, clothing, medical care and undergo physical conditioning.They’d live outdoors in large work camps with people from different parts of the country.It was a promise of

1:45

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/08

What keeps you going during dark times?For many of the young men America sent to France in World War I, it was sports.Football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, boxing, and track and field.The War Department had a bureau which helped to organized things and the YMCA was involved, too, especially in promoting boxing. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

1:59

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/07

Some pictures stick with you.Here are the ones from last week, which we posted here on Substack or on our Bluesky page or YouTube Channel, which have stuck with me:Jack Kennedy and his older brother, Joe, Jr., on the beach in Massachusetts.President Macron presenting the Legion of Honor to Ben Miller, a former paratrooper medic, who flew to the Normandy beaches on a glider on D-Day evening to care for the wounded. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:32

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/05

American forces in northern France celebrated the nation’s 166th birthday at noon yesterday by firing in unison all of their artillery pieces at German positions.American infantrymen are fighting through heavy rain and mud along a thirty-five-mile front in their advance towards St. Lo.British and Canadian forces have linked up west of Caen in their press to capture the city.French resistance fighters have severed the main rail line connecting Normandy to southern Germany.Allied sources report that,

2:45

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/04

On the Fourth of July in 1942, the attack on Pearl Harbor was in the rear-view mirror.In the past seven months, the number of men serving in the US armed forces had swelled to more than three million and women were beginning to take their place in the workplace.On July 4th, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt returned to Washington after spending a few days at his home in Hyde Park, New York.Winston Churchill had been in Washington recently for war planning meetings.On the Fourth, FDR had lunch with

1:43

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/03

When Texas ranchers returned home after the Civil War, they learned the old ways of cattle ranching were gone forever.The enslaved men who had tended their herds before the war had left and their cattle have scattered across the open range.The market for beef had changed, too.Markets in the South had collapsed — people were broke — but demand for beef in the North was surging.These changes brought an opportunity to get back on their feet for ranchers who could adapt. Get full access to Photo of the

2:29

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/07/02

On the night of July 2, 1863, Val Giles, age twenty-one, was huddled behind a large rock at the base of Big Round Top in Gettysburg after his Texas infantry unit had failed to wrest control of the mountaintop from Federal defenders earlier in the day.He later described that night in his memoirs:‘In making that long charge across the open field to the base of the mountain, our brigade got jammed up.Every tree, rock and stump that gave any protection from the rain of Minié balls that were poured down

2:14

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/30

Some pictures stick with you.Here are the ones from last week, which we posted here on Substack or on our Bluesky page or YouTube Channel, which have stuck with me:When Americans did a big thing: they planted flags on the Moon, 1960-’72.Another big thing: they built this bridge for the transcontinental railroad, late 1860s.These Marines in Vietnam, 1967. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:30

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/28

0FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has announced the arrest of eight Nazi saboteurs who went ashore from submarines on Long Island and Florida with cash, weapons, explosives, and plans for blowing up rail lines, bridges, department stores and defense production factories.The press has now been permitted to report that a large number of US Army Air Forces personnel have arrived in Britain, where they intend to take over many RAF airfields and participate in mass attacks on German targets.German forces

2:23

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/27

In the early morning hours of June 27, 1967, a rocket and mortar attack struck the Khe Sanh Combat Base in northwest South Vietnam.Four Marines were killed in the attack and another eighty-three were wounded.At 8:30 that morning, a Marine patrol set off for a hill four kilometers to the west of the base where an observation aircraft had spotted enemy rocket and mortar launch sites.When the Marine patrol reached the top of the hill, a large enemy force attacked them, killing and wounding several men

2:29

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/26

The idea of a transcontinental railroad caught fire in the late 1840s, when New York merchant Asa Whitney presented a plan to Congress.Then Whitney published a pamphlet explaining the idea to the public and the idea took hold.The government sent engineers out west to evaluate five proposed routes for the railroad.They determined that, while each route posed its own set of challenges, any of them could work.And the debate began. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

1:04

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/25

A barefoot First Lady?A second-grader writes to President Kennedy. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

1:37

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/24

00During the 1930s, about half a million people traveled west on Route 66 to the agricultural valleys of California.Most were tenant farmers who had lost their farm leases during a wave of agricultural consolidation brought on by government programs intended to raise the price of farm products.Others left home when the drought and dust storms blew their farms away.Why choose California for a fresh start?Its mild climate and long growing season for many different crops meant there would be a need for

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/21

American infantrymen, supported by heavy artillery, have advanced to the outskirts of the Atlantic port city of Cherbourg, penetrating the outer ring of German defenses.French refugees say the Germans have been blowing up port installations there for the past four days.Meanwhile, French resistance fighters have conducted coordinated attacks on French rail lines and canals which the Germans have used to transport supplies. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:05

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/20

Josiah Moffitt wasn’t bitter about losing a son in the Civil War.While some bereaved parents blamed President Lincoln for their heartache, Josiah knew, hard as it was, Lincoln was doing what had to be done to save the Union.And Josiah wanted to thank him for that.But, what does a masonry contractor give the president of the United States? Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:02

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/19

On September 18, 1950, the tide turned in Korea.140,000 United Nations troops, whom invading North Koreans had pushed back to the southeast tip of South Korea, broke through a 140-mile defensive perimeter, called the Pusan Perimeter, and began the drive north.And as they did, 13,000 US Marines, who had gone ashore at Inchon Harbor, on the west coast of the Korean peninsula three days before, began their drive south. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:45

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/06/18

It is September 2, 1901, the opening day of the Minnesota State Fair.And the keynote speaker for the opening ceremonies is Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.He will use the ocassion to deliver one of the most memorable lines in history:‘Speak softly and carry a big stick.’Amid the livestock displays and competition quilts, Roosevelt will lay the ground rules for the nation’s conduct in a rapidly changing world of empires. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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