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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/11/21

Citing the ‘collapse of Russia,’ an ally, and battlefield setbacks in Italy, the British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, has called on the US to ‘send as many troops to Europe as possible as early as possible.’He also urged the rapid completion of promised US shipbuilding and the training and outfitting of an American air force.“Command of the air in the battle line is almost as essential as command of the sea,” the Prime Minister said.In France, the new Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau, pledged a

3:35

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/11/19

It was ten minutes past noon on the 18th when Lincoln boarded the train.With him were his valet, his secretary, an official escort from the Quartermaster’s office, and some invited guests.The six-hour train ride to Gettysburg took Lincoln through small Pennsylvania towns.He used the trip to work on the address he would deliver the next day at the dedication of the new soldiers’ cemetery. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:07

Photo of the Day

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2025/11/15

Germany has rejected the offer of Belgium and the Netherlands to mediate a peaceful end to the European war, claiming Britain has already rejected the offer.Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands and King Leopold III of Belgium, both neutrals, had tendered their offer of mediation to Germany, France and Britain a week ago in large part to prevent their own countries from being drawn into the conflict.[Ed: Their mediation efforts will be in vain. Germany will invade Belgium on May 10, 1940, and the

3:09

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/11/13

The British Foreign Minister has informed the Lincoln Administration of a plot devised by Confederate asylum-seekers in Canada to seize a Lake Erie steamship and rescue Confederate officers now imprisoned on Johnson’s Island, in Sandusky Bay, Ohio.Two thousand rebels are imprisoned there and many are Confederate officers seized in the July battle at Gettysburg.The plot includes a plan to burn Buffalo, New York, as well as other Lake Erie cities. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

4:13

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/11/11

A State Department spokesman announced overnight that Germany has signed the armistice and hostilities will cease this morning at 11:00 AM Paris time.The German Army has refused the pleas of the German Emperor, sometimes called “Kaiser Bill,” to support the continuation of his reign.The Kaiser and his son, the Crown Prince, have abdicated and have fled to Holland.The kings, dukes and princes ruling other principalities within the German Empire are also abdicating.In Berlin, Socialists have raised

4:00

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/11/08

President Roosevelt has announced the arrival of an American military force on the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Vichy French territories in North Africa in what has been called ‘the largest single American offensive action in history.’The offensive’s purpose, Roosevelt said, is to deny the aggressor nations “a starting point” from which they could attack the Atlantic coast of the Americas.The surprise announcement came at 9:00 PM, the precise moment when American troops began their African

4:18

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/11/06

A Union officer formerly held prisoner in the Confederates’ Libby Prison in Richmond has written a letter to the newspaper’s editor describing the miseries suffered by the hundreds of Union prisoners there.‘The three rooms on the upper floor contain at least two hundred Union soldiers each.Four small-sized windows at each end of these rooms admit a limited amount of light for about 25 feet, leaving about 40 feet in the centre of each [dark].There are ill-constructed water-closets [flush toilets] in

1:08

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/11/05

Some long-ago words from Walt Whitman:“From this hour I ordain myself loos’d of limits and imaginary lines,Going where I list, my own master total and absolute,Listening to others, considering well what they say,Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,Gently,but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.I inhale great draughts of space,The east and the west are mine, and the north and the south are mine.I am larger, better than I thought,I did not know I held so

2:56

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/11/04

French and British troops have arrived in Italy from the Western Front to bolster the Italian army after its blistering defeat in Caporetto cut its troop strength in half.While the German advance into northeastern Italy is said to have been checked, Berlin reports the capture of 200,000 Italian prisoners and 1,800 artillery pieces.Battles large and small continue in Northern France with most involving heavy artillery.French officials report the downing of two dozen German aircraft in the last ten

3:10

Photo of the Day

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2025/11/01

The destroyer USS Reuben James has been torpedoed and sunk near Iceland while on convoy duty, becoming the first US Navy vessel lost in the war.U-boats have targeted two other American warships in the same area recently, with one evading attack and the other sustaining damage.While British sources say the sinking of the Reuben James will hasten America’s entrance into the war, President Roosevelt said the loss was a foreseeable consequence of the Atlantic convoy system and will not change US

2:47

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/30

Enough rain has fallen to permit Union engineers to construct a pontoon bridge of seventy-five boats across the swollen Potomac River near Berlin, Virginia.For the past several days, the Army of the Potomac has been marching across this bridge from Maryland into Virginia, where General Lee’s forces retreated after their September defeat at Antietam.General Burnside’s corps is leading the advance into Virginia while General McClellan’s camp has been established in Berlin, near the river.[Ed: Lincoln

3:16

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/29

On the Western Front, a combined force of French and Belgian troops has achieved a tactical success in Flanders, a region of northern Belgium.There, they captured the strategic Merckem Peninsula, a swampy area near the town of Ypres which is marked by streams and canals.[Ed: The fight in this area is part of the larger Battle of Passchendaele, a major engagement of the war in which Canadian troops will play the key role.]The French and Belgian soldiers fought through neck-deep water in places to

4:06

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/28

Even as the stock market surged in the 1920s, with stock prices more than quadrupling in value, an economic depression was beginning to take hold on American farms, affecting more than thirty per cent of the US population.The robust prosperity of American farms during the 1910s had been capped off by a surging demand for their products in war-torn Europe.To meet this demand, farmers had borrowed money for new equipment and additional farm land, boosting production.But when Europe recovered from the

4:15

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/25

As cold rains fall, one million French and British troops stand behind France’s Maginot Line and one million German troops stand opposite them behind Germany’s Westwall.Though the distance between them is just a few miles, there is little military activity aside from small skirmishes.While Hitler may have the initiative, the war industries of Britain, France and Germany are producing armaments at a fevered pitch.There are reports that both Germany and France are considering supplying their infantry

3:40

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/24

It came at the end of a three-month lecture tour across Canada and the US.Nearly everyone Churchill had met on the tour was invested in the stock market.“The housemaid who makes your bed is a stockholder on margin.Workmen of every class, brain or hand, the chauffeur, the tram conductor, the railway man, the waiter,…all have their open accounts, and so very often have their wives,” he’d later write.Churchill’s tour had been organized by financier Bernard Baruch, who introduced him to the titans of

3:22

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/23

Two men taken prisoner in Northern Virginia confessed to Union officers that they had just returned from Richmond, where they had taken a large group of locally-owned enslaved people to prevent losing them under the Emancipation Act.'By January 1st next year, there will be no Negroes left in this entire region,’ the men said.The US Navy Department has let it be known that it would pay $500,000 for the Confederate raiding ship Alabama and $300,000 if the vessel is destroyed.Rumors swirl that a French

3:27

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/22

History offers some clues.In 1979, the 5th Avenue department store, Bonwit Teller, closed down and Trump purchased the property.He wanted to build his flagship Trump Tower on the site.But he needed to rush the demolition of the building to avoid paying real estate taxes on it.The Bonwit Teller building had been constructed in 1929 in classic Beaux Arts style.So, when news of Trump’s demolition plans spread, New York City preservationists stepped in, urging Trump to save two artistic elements of the

3:31

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/21

Heavy gun duels between French and German artillery units have broken out northeast of Ypres, Belgium, and along the banks of the Meuse River, near Verdun.Poor weather has limited aerial activity and there have been no recent infantry engagements.Two German cruisers attacked a neutral Scandinavian merchant convoy in the North Sea on October 17, sinking nine vessels along with two Royal Navy escort ships.The dark night enabled the German attack ships to evade detection and escape unscathed.As they

4:23

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/18

100,000 German infantrymen have advanced on forward French outposts along a twenty-mile line at the Western Front.While they succeeded in pushing some French troops from German territory, they suffered heavy losses as they approached the main French defenses.German bombers have staged two more raids on the British naval base at Scapa Flow, in northern Scotland.This comes less than a week after a German U-boat evaded underwater mines and nets to enter the Scapa Flow harbor and sink the British

3:14

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/10/17

An example.When Billie Burke portrayed Glinda, the Good Witch in The Wizard of Oz, she was fifty-four years old.She was in her 36th year as a professional actress.Billie’s career had begun on the London stage in 1903, when she was nineteen.By 1916, she was the highest paid actor in Hollywood. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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