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. Not …
Topic: Culture & Society
Exploring Americana artifacts and other obscure areas of US history
Today's #stampoftheday, a $1 stamp picturing Admiral David Farragut that was issued on June 5, 1903, is yet another old stamp that in some ways connects to today's turmoil, albeit in less insightful ways than some of the other recent stamps. Still, it reminds us that even in the face of real obstacles and danger …
A seemingly banal, classic mid-20th century image of a white mail carrier that is today's #stampoftheday turned out deliver a timely lesson about the ways that the government, particularly the federal government, can be used to both further oppression and foster opportunity. The stamp is a 15-cent stamp special delivery stamp issued on June 6, 1955. …
Digging into today's #stampoftheday - a 4-cent stamp, issued on Jun 8, 1959, that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Comstock Lode in Nevada - I unearthed a story that starts with mining, continues to bitter fights over national economic policy, and ends with an infamous trial in which a leading political figure took issue …
Doctors are the subject of today's #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp issued on June 9, 1947 commemorating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the American Medical Association (AMA) in May 1847. I'm not sure why they waited until June to issue the stamp. Perhaps they were running late. The stamp pictures of Sir Luke Fildes' famous …
Today #stampoftheday journeys to sea with the 3-cent stamp issued on June 10, 1957 to commemorate the 1957 International Naval Review, on June 12. The review was based in Hampton Roads was scheduled to coincide with the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent white settlement in the U.S. It featured about 80 …
A 5-cent stamp picturing Ulysses S. Grant that was issued on June 11, 1895 "should" be today's #stampoftheday. But since Grant was the subject of the May 28 #stampoftheday I'm going to reach back a few days to the wonderfully illustrative, 4-cent "American Women" stamp that I overlooked on June 2nd, which was the 60th …
Baseball, which is near and dear to my heart, takes the field as today's #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp issued on June 12, 1939, issued in conjunction with the opening of the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown NY. The stamp commemorates what was alleged to be the 100-year anniversary of the beginning of …
Oklahoma, "where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain" (and where many strange and unsettling things also have happened), takes center stage as today's #stampoftheday, a 3-cent stamp, issued on June 14, 1957, to mark the 50th anniversary of Oklahoma becoming the nation's 46th state. Issued in conjunction with Oklahoma's Semi-Centennial Exposition, which ran from …