Tonight, the end of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and a day after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, it seems appropriate that today’s #stampoftheday honors a Lajos Kossuth, a Hungarian who was one of the world’s best known freedom fighters in the mid 1800s. A Hungarian who was born on September 19, 1802,

Tonight is the start of Rosh Hashanah, which kicks off a 10-day period that I like to use to reflect on where I am, where I’ve come from, and where I hope to go. I thought perhaps that today’s #stampoftheday would have some powerful metaphor for the journey but I’m not sure that’s the case.

The fragility of our constitutional form of government is the message I get from today’s #stampoftheday. A 3-cent stamp, issued on September 17, 1937, it commemorates the 150th anniversary (or the sesquicentennial) of the Constitutional Convention’s vote to approve the proposed US Constitution on September 17, 1787. The proposed constitution, which the delegates had been

Bizarrely, a violent procession of almost 100,000 angry poor, indigenous farmers and others in Mexico, is implicitly celebrated in today’s seemingly benign #stampoftheday., a 4-cent stamp, issued on September 16, 1960, that honors the 150th anniversary of Mexican Independence. The stamp pictures the bell that Father Miguel Hidalgo supposedly rang on September 16, 1810 when

The last president to have visible facial hair (not including Richard Nixon’s 5 o’clock shadow), the “heaviest” president (in terms of body weight) and the only man to serve as both president of the United States and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, weighs in as the subject of today’s #stampoftheday. The honoree is

A medical expert employed by the U.S. government who more than a century ago used data and experiments to help address a major public health crisis is the focus of today’s #stampoftheday. A 5-cent stamp issued in 1940, it portrays Major Walter Reed, a physician and researcher who did groundbreaking work on both yellow fever

While yesterday’s #stampoftheday focused on the World Trade Center, which was built on landfill in the Hudson River, today’s #stampoftheday focuses on the river itself because on September 12, 1609, explorer Henry Hudson first reached the river that would bear his name. The stamp itself, is a 2-cent stamp, issued in September 1909, as part

Today, on the 19th anniversary of four coordinated terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 airplane terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center (WTC), the #stampoftheday, is reminder that the WTC was the result of an ambitious effort to make lower Manhattan a hub of economic activity. The stamp that introduces this theme – a