When I was growing up in the 1960s, I was captivated by the space race. I don’t remember Alan Shepard’s first Mercury flight or John...

Kevin G. Lowther penned thoughtful advice about planning for that day when we each close our stamp album for the last time in “Stamp...

What comes to mind when you think of the United States Army Air Corps during World War II? Maybe you picture the heroic pilots who flew...

As most postal historians will know, the first regularly scheduled, official air mail flight in the United States took place May 15,...

In 1923, the U.S. Army Air Service decided that it would attempt to become the first group to circumnavigate the globe by airplane. This...

On August 1, 1928, the U.S. Post Office Department lowered the airmail rate to 5-cents for the first ounce. This was a significant...

(This post was published in two places: A postal history journal named La Posta for the 4th quarter of 2024 and in two parts in Le...

I gave this presentation at the Great American Stamp Show in Hartford, Connecticut on August 16, 2024, and to the Greater Philadelphia...

Some stamp societies invite collectors to submit one-page exhibits that are then displayed on their websites. These are noncompetitive...

Update: This post was published in First Days , July-August 2024, pp. 60-69. The layout by editor Martin Kent Miller is fantastic. The...

One of the major milestones in postal history was the establishment of transpacific airmail routes. The first route to be established was...

Update: This article was published in the American Air Mail Society's Air Post Journal for June-July 2024. A copy of this article is...

The cover shown in Figures 1 and 2 caught my attention when it was offered at auction in July 2023. I had heard of the recipient Edward...

Attached is a presentation that I delivered at the Philatelic Gathering on March 23, 2024. It's the final version of a presentation that...

Update: This article was published in the second quarter 2024 issue of Kelleher's Stamp Collector's Quarterly. The editing was subpar - I...

Update December 23, 2023: This article has been published in two publications: Airpost Journal, November 2023, and Kelleher's Stamp...

Today, first-class mail is often carried by planes, but before 1977, air mail was a distinct service from first-class mail, and a sender...

(This article was published in the Airpost Journal, April 2024, Vol. 95, No. 4, Whole No. 1126, pp. 144-146. A PDF of the published...

Charles A. Lindbergh became a household name after he made the first nonstop flight from New York to Paris in May 1927. But he didn't...

One of the technological wonders of the 1920s and 1930s was lighter-than-air transport. Indeed, there was a race between which would...