A bizarre and troubling stamp honoring the group behind many controversial monuments honoring the leaders of the Confederacy is today’s #stampoftheday. Issued in 1951, the 3-cent stamp commemorates the final reunion of last gathering of the United Confederate Veterans – that is the last surviving soldiers who fought to preserve slavery in the United States. […]

The tallest stamp the Post Office had ever issued when it was released on May 27, 1926 is today’s #stampoftheday. The stamp features John Ericsson, the self-taught Swedish-born inventor who not only designed the Monitor, the iron-clad Union ship that played a decisive role in the Civil War, but also made seminal improvements in the

The #stampoftheday for May 28 is a 1-cent Ulysses S. Grant postal card postmarked May 28 1892. (Yes, in addition to U.S., U.N., and Israeli stamps and first-day covers, as well as postage meter cancellations, my father also had postcards, some old, some from the mid-19th century, in his collection. In fact I’ve been using

Infrastructure is the theme for two stamps I offer #stampoftheday for Sunday, May 24, 2020. The first is a 3-cent stamp issued in 1944 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the day that Samuel F.B. Morse, who invented the telegraph, sat in the Supreme Court chamber of the Capitol and tapped out the message to

The #stampoftheday for May 21 is a 3-cent stamp issued on May 21, 1955 honoring America’s Armed Forces reserve units. The reserves were first established in 1908 as a way to ensure that there would be medical officers available in times of war or other national emergencies. In the National Defense Act of 1920, Congress

The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) “Women in Armed Forces,” which was founded on May 15, 1942, is the focus of today’s #stampoftheday: a 3-cent stamp issued in 1952 honoring “Women in Our Armed Services.”. Before World War II, women were generally only allowed on the battlefield as nurses or as volunteers as communications specialists

Two offerings for the May 13th #stampoftheday. The first is a 5-cent stamp picturing Edward McDowell that is part of the 1940 “famous Americans” series discussed in earlier posts. McDowell, who lived from 1860 to 1908, was a well-known composer, pianist, and teacher who also was Columbia University’s first professor of music and one of

The “ruptured duck” on May 9th’s #stampoftheday spurs a narrative that goes from honoring soldiers, to a mid-20th century film star, to Bluetooth and finally to Mel Brooks. Here goes…the stamp is a 3-cent stamp issued in 1946 “Honoring All Those Who Served” in World War II. It pictures the Honorable Discharge Emblem, surrounded by