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.
Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain] in 1850, when he was a fifteen-year-old printer’s apprentice.
These enslaved women with sadness etched deep in their faces.
This car, with tired eyes and a moustache, stuck in a New York City blizzard, 1917.
President Grant delivers his first inaugural address, March 4, 1869.
These two pictures of a Black man husking an ear of corn. On the left: Helen West Heller’s woodcut print, "Corn Husking (right panel)," 1935. On the right: Marion Post Wolcott’s photo, “Corn Shucking in North Carolina,” 1939.
These cocky German soldiers at the start of the ill-fated Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, 1941.
‘Just wait until winter, boys!’
This Marine in Guadalcanal in 1942. His son published this photo recently and noted that his dad suffered three dozen bouts of malaria while fighting in the South Pacific.
LBJ trying to get a handle on the situation in Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, 1967.
And finally, this little boy, the son of migrant farm workers in California, holding his puppies, who had everything that really mattered in life, 1938.
I’ll see you tomorrow.
— Brenda
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