While today’s #stampoftheday honors a decision made in 1898, it also connects directly the inflammatory tweets about fair housing made by Donald Trump earlier this week. The stamp itself, is a 5-cent airmail stamp, issued on July 31, 1948 to mark the 50th anniversary of the expansion of New York City – which consisted of […]

America’s first national park and its iconic geyser are pictured on today’s #stampoftheday, a 5-cent stamp, issued on July 30, 1934 that pictures Yellowstone National Parks’ Old Faithful geyser and also illustrates the many challenges of managing a major park. Although it wasn’t the first in the 10-stamp series issued in 1934 highlighting notable National

The first – and perhaps the only – two men who ever asked for directions are honored in today’s #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp issued on July 29, 1954 honoring the 150th anniversary of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition. The expedition, which also was known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, which stared on August

Townsend Harris, an obscure 19th century American diplomat who not only was portrayed by John Wayne in 1958 and was a character a satirical Japanese manga-based anime, but also founded what became the City College of New York and is the namesake of a well-known New York City public high school, is the unlikely focus

The Wright Brothers take wing in today’s #stampoftheday, a 6-cent airmail stamp issued in 1949. But why today, when the stamp was issued on December 17, 1949, on the 46th anniversary of their famous first flight at Kitty Hawk, on December 17, 1903? Because today is the anniversary of another, lesser-known but arguably much more

Today’s #stampoftheday features Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who took office in the midst of an unprecedented crisis and provided much needed leadership through the Great Depression and most of World War II. A 1-cent stamp issued on July 26, 1945 that has a portrait of Roosevelt and Hyde Park, his childhood home, it was the first

Competence in government, particularly the difference that talented people can make if given the authority and the resources, is the theme of today’s #stampoftheday (actually #stampsoftheday). The three stamps themselves honor three major Revolutionary War milestones. The first is a 3-cent stamp, issued in 1955, commemorating the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain by

Unlike the past few days, when I really had to dig around to find a good #stampoftheday, there’s a wealth of easy and wonderful choices for today’s stamp. There’s a 2-cent stamp featuring the Grand Canyon issued on July 24, 1934 that was part of a series of 10 stamps issued that year that pictured

Ulysses S. Grant, who died on July 23, 1885 days after he finished writing his widely acclaimed autobiography, today makes an encore appearance in today’s #stampoftheday, which is an 18-cent stamp issued in 1938. While I wrote about Grant in May, I’m returning to him because in mid-June, protestors in San Francisco tore down a

Ducks, Little Orphan Annie, and a once-famous but now obscure Indiana writer take the stage as today’s #stampoftheday, a 10-cent stamp, issued in 1940, featuring James Whitcomb Riley, a writer and poet who died on July 22, 1916. Although the stamp was part of the series of 35 stamps honoring “Famous Americans” issued in 1940,