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Brenda Elthon

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Photo of the Day

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2026/01/10

General Douglas MacArthur has come ashore on Luzon, the main Philippine island, among the early waves of the largest amphibious assault in the Pacific war.The assault troops, sprung from an Allied convoy of 800 ships, have met negligible enemy resistance.They have established a 15-mile beachhead on Luzon located 107 miles north of the Philippine capital of Manila.The campaign to clear Luzon of the Japanese, who have occupied the island for three years, is expected to take several months.Doing so is

3:44

Photo of the Day

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2026/01/06

September 18, 1862.A day of great sadness.Thousands of dead and wounded Americans lay on farm fields in southern Maryland.The day before, McClellan’s Army of the Potomac and Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia had met in battle along southern Maryland’s Antietam Creek.23,000 men were killed or wounded in the one-day fight. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:23

Photo of the Day

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2026/01/03

Despite two weeks of Allied aerial bombardment, German forces continue to make gains across all of the Western Front, widening their surprise counteroffensive, launched on December 16, to push the Allies out of the German homeland.The only exception is in Luxembourg and Belgium, where Gen. Patton’s Third Army has fought stubborn German resistance to make small gains.The British have lost one of their best: Admiral Bertram Ramsay was killed yesterday in a plane crash near the Paris Orly airport which

3:56

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/31

It is New Year’s Day 1790.This coming July, the United States will be fourteen years old.The Revolutionary War has been over for six years.The Constitution, whose stated purpose is to ‘establish justice and insure domestic tranquility’ among the people, has been the law of the land for a year-and-a-half.New York is currently the nation’s capital, but the federal government will move to Philadelphia in December.Like New York, the Philadelphia location will be temporary.Ten years have been allocated

4:12

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/27

The surprise German offensive begun on December 16, spearheaded by armored columns, has netted the German armies 51 miles of formerly liberated Belgian territory.The two bulges of their armies have now merged.The German objective, according to Allied Headquarters, is to reach the Meuse River 135 miles northeast of Paris, then advance on Brussels.This comes despite increasing Allied resistance on land and in the air.More German gains are expected.Analysts credit the element of surprise with the

5:36

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/25

It is March 1915.And, American newspaper reporter Phil Rader has written a personal account of the Christmas Truce of 1914 for United Press International.Rader was one of a hundred Americans who had enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1914.On Christmas Day 1914, he was in the trenches of Northern France.“We had been in the trenches for twenty days facing that strip of land, forty-five feet wide, between our trenches and that of the Germans,that terrible No-man’s land, dotted with dead bodies,

3:48

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/24

It is 1915.The poet, Robert Frost, is writing from his new home, a wooded farmplace in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.A stranger has come from the city and is asking about his trees.“The city had withdrawn into itselfAnd left at last the country to the country;When between whirls of snow not come to lieAnd whirls of foliage not yet laid, there droveA stranger to our yard, who looked the city,Yet did in country fashion in that thereHe sat and waited till he drew us outA-buttoning coats to ask

4:59

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/20

Hopes among dreamers that the war would end by Christmas have been dashed as the surprise German offensive through Belgium entered its fifth day.This fight, which some are calling the greatest battle in American history, is Hitler’s last grasp at victory.Hitler has disputed reports that it is German generals who are now in charge, with Berlin radio claiming Hitler personally planned and is now directing the operation.Gestapo chief Heinrich Himmler is said to have assumed personal command of German

2:25

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/16

It is December 1862.A beloved father, prominent in his community and active in progressive politics, has died a sudden, violent death.His daughter, a young woman in her twenties, is inconsolable.The man was killed in action in a Civil War battle in Mississippi.He needn’t have been there.He was old and had obtained special permission to enlist.But he believed in the Union cause and Constitutional values, so the permission was granted.His death has shaken his community.The President knew the family

3:43

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2025/12/13

The US Navy Department offered ‘no comment’ to today’s Japanese report that its attack force sunk the battleship USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor six days ago.Japanese air and naval forces continue their attacks on three sides of Luzon, the main island in the Philippines and the home of the capital, Manila, and American airfields.The small US garrisons on Wake and Midway Islands continue to defend against Japanese attacks.As the British fend off Japanese attacks in Malaya and Hong Kong, the US Navy said

1:22

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/10

Samuel Connell writes to President Lincoln in January 1864:‘Dear Sir,I take the liberty of writing a plan for ending the War.It is simply this: send for Jeff Davis and his Congress and as many of his associates as possible,[General Lee in particular if you can get him to come.]Tell them to come immediately and meet you.Then hand them over to me and resign your presidential seat to me.I will declare them deranged.And I will have them taken care of until we can have the nation’s capital converted into

4:38

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2025/12/09

The city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, is reeling following the harbor explosion three days ago between a French vessel carrying explosives bound for France and a Norwegian relief vessel en route to New York.The explosion flattened schools, railway and waterfront structures, homes and buildings in the harbor region, killing their occupants.Thousands of other structures not in the immediate blast radius were damaged from the concussive force of the explosion.The local coroner has ordered four thousand

5:49

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/06

After four days of fog and showers, New Yorkers will enjoy a nice day for Christmas shopping, with afternoon temperatures climbing into the 50s.Most of the rest of the country will see nice weather, too: clear and 45 degrees in St. Louis; partly cloudy and 73 in Tampa; 39 in Denver.Christmas tree prices in New Jersey are up this year.Last year, a nice tree cost $2.50, but the same tree this year will cost you at least fifty cents more.The county commissioner of New York’s Westchester County is

2:39

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/04

After the Confederate victory in Missouri at Wilson’s Creek, local farmer Mary Phelps heard that Confederate soldiers intended to remove the heart of the fallen Union commander, Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon, and preserve it as a war trophy.The New York Times tells the story:‘Learning of this outrage on the slain General, Mrs. Phelps armed herself and drove to the Confederate camp by nightfall.There, alone, she guarded the body of General Lyon.When ordered by the rebels to give up the body, she

2:28

Photo of the Day

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2025/12/02

A letter from the California gold fields of 1850.“Dear George,I have passed through so many scenes and changes of condition that I scarcely know what to write.We arrived in the Sacramento Valley in the rainy season.Rain and mud was everywhere. Get full access to Photo of the Day at look.substack.com/subscribe

4:31

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2025/11/29

These are the main stories reported in the New York Times on November 29, 1941.Background.… The Japanese strike force left Japan for Pearl Harbor on November 26.… Also on November 26, the US Secretary of State delivered a note to Japan’s Washington negotiators stating that peace with the US required the Japanese to withdraw from China and French Indochina.… On November 27, President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State met with the Japanese negotiators in the White House following reports that

7:52

Photo of the Day

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2025/11/27

It’s Thanksgiving Day, 1941.The weather is unseasonably warm all across the country: 62 degrees in New York; 60 in Los Angeles; 56 in Phoenix; 36 in Minneapolis.The short-skirted baton-twirlers in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade will introduce Macy’s newest balloon, a seventy-five-foot-tall football player straining to catch a twelve-foot-long football.Those who can’t make it into the city to see the parade can listen to it on the radio. Get full access to Photo of the Day at

5:00

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2025/11/26

‘By resuming the exchanges, thousands of rugged, strong men [well cared for in the North’s camps] would be sent into the armies of the South…… and no equivalent would be received in the broken-down, emaciated wrecks of humanity that would be sent home from the pens at Andersonville [and other Confederate camps].”The reporter then describes the transfer of Union soldiers from a Confederate ship to a Union ship:‘Those [men] who are able to move without aid pass to the protection of the old flag

2:47

Photo of the Day

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2025/11/25

It isn’t much to look at: short, stubby, and somewhat difficult to grow.But this little tree is a survivor.When glaciers covered most of the continent during the last Ice Age, a few of these trees survived in sheltered micro-habitats along the continent’s southeast coast.In 1765, King George III’s Royal Botanist and his son discovered them growing along the banks of the Altamaha River in Georgia.These men had traveled extensively throughout the Colonies documenting native plant life and they had

3:29

Photo of the Day

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2025/11/22

Japan’s emissaries did not meet with Secretary of State Hull today, as was expected, but instead spent the day in internal meetings at their Washington embassy.The emissaries had presented new Tokyo proposals to Secretary Hull yesterday.Difficulties which then arose seem to be the cause of today’s delay.When President Roosevelt was asked whether he was optimistic about the outcome of these meetings with Japan’s representatives, he replied that ‘the question was like asking a man if he had stopped

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