John Bell Hood, the Confederate general who is the namesake of the most populous U.S. military base in the world (and who apparently wasn’t much of the general) is the focus for today’s #stampoftheday. Hood isn’t on the stamp itself, which is an 8-cent stamp, issued in 1893, picturing General William Tecumsah Sherman, the Union

The instance of land being set aside specifically for preservation and public use by the U.S. federal government is honored in today’s #stampoftheday, a 1-cent stamp issued on July 16. 1934 featuring a picture of Yosemite National Park. The stamp was the first of ten stamps issued in the latter half of 1934 picturing notable

Today’s #stampoftheday is an object lesson in what you can see when you look just a little closer. In this case, it’s a story that not only features mediocre (at best) political and military leadership but also a famous sculptor whose work includes the largest of the many controversial monuments to the Confederacy. The stamp

The use of military force – or at least the threat of military force – to force the opening of a sovereign nation that wanted to keep outsiders away is celebrated in today’s #stampoftheday. At least that’s one way to look at the stamp, a 3-cent stamp issued on July 14, 1953 commemorating the 100th

Legislation that created the framework for the growth of the United States and, in doing so, helped lay the groundwork for the disputes that led to the Civil War, is honored in today’s #stampoftheday. A 3-cent stamp issued on July 13, 1937, the stamp commemorated the 150th anniversary of the passage of the Northwest Ordinance

One of the most iconic images from World War II—Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima—is featured on today’s #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp showing that image issued on July 11, 1945, about five months after the picture was taken and about a month before Japan surrendered. The stamp recreates Joe Rosenthal’s iconic, Pulitzer Prize winning

How times change, is illustrated by today’s #stampoftheday, which honors a state that was the first state where were first allowed to vote but now is so conservative that it gave Donald Trump his largest margin of victory in 2016. The state is Wyoming and the stamp is a 3-cent stamp issued on July 10,

A five-cent stamp issued in 1940, takes us on a magical and mysterious tour that not only includes the Beatles but also has vigilante tailors, dreams that solve intractable design problems, multiyear lawsuits, multimillion-dollar fortunes, America’s first patent pool, an author who claims to speak for those beyond this world, and, of course, both sewing