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Photo of the Day Podcast

Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/02

Wrapped in the flag.Fort Macon was built on the North Carolina coast after the War of 1812 to guard Beaufort harbor from attacks by pirates or enemy warships.And, for a few decades, the US Army garrisoned troops at the Fort.But then, as the threat of foreign warships subsided, Congress cut back on funding.The Fort fell into disrepair.The troops left. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/07/01

Forced off the fence.It is 1861.The question of secession has deeply divided the people of Missouri.The state entered the Union in 1821 as a slave state and Southern sentiment dominated rural parts of the state.But St. Louis was pro-Union. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/29

Turmoil’s blessing.It is 1757.The British colonies are in the third year of the French and Indian War in the Ohio Valley.Col. George Washington, of the Virginia militia, age 25, is Britain’s ambassador there.The job requires that he work effectively with French officials as well as the leaders of the Iroquois Confederation, while offering protection to British residents.This is a tall order. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/28

The President’s best day.For Lincoln, it was Saturday, July 4, 1863.At 10:00 that morning, Confederate forces in Vicksburg surrendered to General Grant, ending his forty-seven-day siege of the Confederate river and rail transportation hub.Grant’s victory gave Union forces control of the Mississippi River, effectively splitting the Confederacy in two.At 3:00 in the afternoon on the day before, Union forces in Gettysburg had repelled Pickett’s Charge, inflicting devastating casualties on Confederate

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/27

The dark path.It is the morning of August 18, 1790, and the nation’s first president is in Newport, Rhode Island, meeting officials and representatives of religious groups.Among them is Moses Seixas, the son of Portuguese immigrants, who leads Newport’s Jewish congregation.The day before, Seixas had written to Washington seeking assurance that Jews, persecuted throughout history, would be entitled to all of the rights and privileges of American citizens regardless of their religious affiliation. Get

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/26

Real leadership.In March 1945, “Lightning Joe” Collins’s men of the Army’s VII Corps crossed into Germany.They were driving east, toward Germany’s industrial heartland in the Ruhr Valley.Then it was on to Berlin. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/25

The worried wife.The Civil War’s first major battle killed or wounded almost five thousand men.Among them was Captain James B. Ricketts, a Union artillery commander.After receiving wounds, he was taken to a house on the edge of the battlefield which the Confederates had converted into a field hospital.Four days later, Ricketts’s wife, Fanny, learned her husband had been injured.She left her home in Washington and crossed Confederate lines to search for him.And she found him in that house. Get full

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/24

Preparing for the debate.It is the summer of 1854.Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas’s bill to allow the people of Kansas and Nebraska, rather than the federal government, to decide whether slavery will be permitted in their region has become law.The law is an expression of “popular sovereignty.”It negates the antislavery provisions of the Missouri Compromise, which had prohibited the expansion of slavery in lands of the Louisiana Purchase above the 36th parallel of latitude.And the law ignites

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/22

Judy Garland and Jack KennedyThey met in 1954, at the Hollywood premier of A Star Is Born, a film long considered Judy’s finest performance.At the time, Kennedy was thirty-seven and the junior senator from Massachusetts. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/21

Butting heads.By 1944, Bill Mauldin’s “Willie and Joe” cartoons were appearing six times a week in the Stars and Stripes military newspaper.Willie and Joe were bedraggled, ordinary Americans coping with the mud, tedium and fear of the infantryman serving on the front lines in Europe. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/20

The kamikaze pilotsThey would drive the invaders away just as typhoon “divine winds” had spared Japan from Mongol invasion fleets six hundred years before.Their self-sacrifice would demonstrate supreme loyalty.It would avoid the shame of capture and defeat.It was virtuous, draped in ritual, and lay at the heart of the ancient samurai code. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/19

‘The valor which secured national unity.’In May 1865, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the new president, Andrew Johnson, and other dignitaries sat in a reviewing stand outside the White House.Before them marched more than two hundred thousand soldiers of the victorious “Grand Armies of the Republic” in a triumphant two-day parade down Pennsylvania Avenue.They had secured victory and the Civil War was over. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/18

On this day in 1944,US Marines were in the fourth day of their campaign to capture the Japanese stronghold on Saipan. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/17

lookers and gawkersMost people today would never use the word “midget.”The word comes from “midge,” which are several species of tiny fly.The proper term for a person of unusually small stature is “little people.”Traditionally, little people were reviled and excluded from full participation in society. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/15

Gen. Grant writes to his fatherOn this day in 1863, Gen. Grant is laying siege to Vicksburg, the vital Confederate transportation hub on the Mississippi River.Grant’s letter:“All I can say is that I am well.“I have the enemy closely hemmed in all round. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/14

Eisenhower’s suggestion for Father’s Day.Have a barbeque.Outdoor grilling is a manly thing to do.And none did it better than Ike. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/13

‘Get back in the kitchen.’By 1913, the women’s suffrage movement had stalled.A constitutional amendment to grant women voting rights, proposed thirty-five years before, had come up for a vote in Congress only once, and it had failed.Six western states had adopted laws granting women voting rights, but the rest of the nation had not.In the absence of a constitutional amendment, women’s voting rights were subject to the vagaries of politics. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/12

The mountain.It began as an ancient volcano, spewing molten rock and ash for untold millennia to form a nearly perfect cinder cone of basalt which rises 3,200 feet above the Mekong River Delta in the southwest corner of Vietnam.From her peak, the mountain offers a commanding view of the flat delta lands — a mix of jungle and farmland — which lay below.Long before the Americans, the French and the Japanese fought for dominion over her, the mountain was the scene of battles between rival kings of the

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/11

Ernie Pyle, “Stars and Stripes,” June 12, 1944.“Due to last-minute arrangements I didn’t arrive at the beachhead until the morning after D-Day, after our first wave of assault troops had hit the shore.“By the time we got here the beaches had been taken and the fighting had moved a couple of miles inland.“All that remained on the beach were some sniper and artillery fire and an occasional startling blast of a mine geysering brown sand into the air.“That, plus a gigantic and pitiful litter of wreckage

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Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day Podcast ·

2024/06/10

The real Jim Crow……was a white guy from the East River docks of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

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