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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/28

When we fail to teach the country’s boys and girls these stories — when we allow them to learn only selected portions of America’s history — they become easy marks for power-hungry adults espousing seductive white supremacy messages.A great country is not afraid to look in the mirror.So, look and make children learn all of it.Knowledge is power. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:41

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/27

The new, Trump-imposed obligation of US government workersto report on their coworkers who fail to‘toe the line’ on DEI matters(and perhaps other things not yet announced)takes a page from the Stasi playbook.And as the German experience has shown,the repercussions from this “snitch” directivewill last a lot longer than Trump will. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:44

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/25

Reading the paper on January 25, 1941.And finally…The Cuban press has ridiculed the resolution a US senator introduced in Congress yesterday which calls for the admission of Cuba as a new American state.In Havana, Cuban senators have requested a special session of the Cuban congress to craft an official response to the idea, calling it ‘offensive to Cuba’s national dignity.’One Cuban newspaper suggested the Cuban congress instead petition the State of Florida to inquire whether they desired

1:47

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/24

Some words from Longfellow’s “The Building of the Ship,”an allegorical poem treasured by Lincoln and FDRin which a robust and resilient ship symbolizesthe nation’s passage through times of great adversity.Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!Sail on, O Union, strong and great!Humanity with all its fears,With all the hopes of future years,Is hanging breathless on thy fate! Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:59

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/23

But then came this thing of beauty,Fantasia,a balm for the soul.There is a place for things like that in dark times.Against a backdrop of evil,beautiful examples of human grace cast a very bright light. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:28

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/22

In the words of Karl Marx:“[The German philosopher Georg] Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice.He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.”Welcome to the farce.I’ll see you tomorrow.— Brenda Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:07

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/21

When I am tempted to lose faith in America,I try to remember what we once did and what we once stood for.I live in hope that our national character has not changed.I’ll see you tomorrow.— Brenda Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:10

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/20

It is April 14, 1906.President Theodore Roosevelt has traveled to the grounds of the US Capitolwhere he will lay the cornerstone of the Cannon House Office Building.He had been reelected to office in a landslide sixteen months beforeas the champion of progressive reformsintended to regulate industry and mitigate the effectsof industrial capitalism on individuals and communities.Now, in a new Gilded Age, Roosevelt’s words have renewed relevance.The foundation stone of national life is,and ever must

6:11

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/19

Reading the paper on January 18, 1942.It is a dark time…British and Japanese forces clashed in the mangrove swamps ninety miles from the British crown colony of Singapore yesterday, as the sixth week of the world war drew to a close.Overhead, seventy Japanese aircraft bombed the city, inflicting 150 casualties, while British aircraft bombed Japanese landing barges as they approached Singapore by river.Australian forces have managed to stem the Japanese advance along part of the front for the

3:14

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/17

A friend whose ancestor left Canton to work for the railroadtells me her ancestor’s story has been passed down in her familyfrom generation to generation.He is said to have traveled back and forth,from Canton to California, several times,bring back money which sustained the women, childrenand elderly whom he had left behind.Each retelling, my friend says, renews her family’s pride in being Chinese.‘We built America, Brenda,’ she tells me, then smiles.I’ll see you tomorrow.— Brenda Get full access to

5:17

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/16

An English newspaper reporter who witnessed the executionsaid Mata Hari refused a blindfold.Her hands remaining unbound,she blew a kiss to her assailants moments before they fired.Some say she believed their bullets were blanks.No one claimed Mata Hari’s bodyand it was given over to medical science.Her head was removed and embalmed,then placed in storage in a Paris anatomy museum.In the year 2000, researchers looking for Mata Hari’s head failed to find it.They concluded that the head had been taken

3:46

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/15

The brief but spectacular crime spree of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidin the American West — barely spanning two years — ended in 1901,with a quick trip to New York City to elude Pinkerton Detective agentsfollowed by a voyage to Argentina.Seven years later, Butch and Sundance found themselvesin a small rental house in San Vicente, Bolivia,surrounded by soldiers intent on capturing or killing them Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

6:05

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/14

Maria lived with her husband, John, on a farm in an area of eastern Wisconsinpopulated by Bavarian immigrant families.In the dozen years of her marriage, Maria had borne five children,including the little boy, Emil, who had died soon after his first birthday.The four children who remained ranged in age from ten to three,and the oldest girl, eight-year-old Estella, was my great-grandmother.Another child was expected in March 1900.It would be Maria’s sixth baby. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

3:07

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/13

It is May 23, 1861.Three enslaved men belonging to Confederate Col. Charles Malloryof Hampton, Virginia, have escaped and arrived at Fortress Monroe,a federal installation in the Hampton harbor.The Civil War is now six weeks old, Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

5:16

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/12

Reading the paper on January 11, 1941A bill was introduced in Congress yesterday which would confer upon President Franklin Roosevelt the authority to order the manufacture or procurement of war materials and transfer them to other nations if in the interest of US defense.The purpose of the bill, called ‘lend-lease,’ is to aid anti-Axis nations now under attack.FDR said the need for speed was the reason for requesting this unprecedented grant of executive authority. Get full access to Photo of the

2:46

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/10

Seventy-five canneries dotted Maine’s eastern coastline in 1900,producing canned sardines which were shipped across the nation.The work was seasonal, with intense periods coming in the fallwhich required many unskilled workers willing to work long hours.Rural families, then at the end of the fall harvest season,were recruited for this work;and entire families took these jobs,in keeping with the rural tradition that everyone, including children,contribute to the family’s economic well-being, Get full

3:06

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/09

It is January 1962.The ten-year US defoliant spraying program over South Vietnam,Laos and Cambodia has begun.The program is intended to deprive the Vietcongof food and defensive jungle cover.An unmentioned objective of the program, revealed later,is to drive Vietnamese villagers out of their rural hamlets,where they often hide enemy Vietcong fighters. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

3:49

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/08

It is Labor Day, 1935.A hurricane is sweeping the Florida Keys.It will kill more than 400 people.Most of the dead are unemployed veterans of World War I.They had taken jobs with a New Deal program to build the Overseas Highway, carrying US Route 1 through the Florida Keys to Key West. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:51

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/07

It is September 27, 1907.And 1,002 young women, mostly from the United Kingdom,have stepped down the gangplank of the RMS Balticand arrived at the foot of Manhattan’s West 11th Street.They have come to America to look for husbands. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

2:40

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2025/01/06

It is January 14, 1963.President Kennedy is in the House Chamber delivering his third, and final, State of the Union Address to a joint session of Congress.The 1964 election weighs heavy on his mind.So, in an effort to bolster his political standing, he proposes an aggressive domestic agenda,coupled with significant reductions in personal and corporate tax rates.‘Both are needed,’ he said.‘[T]ax reduction alone is not enough to strengthen our society.’“This country cannot afford to be materially

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