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

Between April and August 1898, the U.S. and Spain fought a war that Spain lost and that resulted in the U.S. taking over Cuba, Puerto...

The Confederate States of America (CSA) was formed by seven seceding states on February 8, 1861. Four more states joined the CSA after...

(This article was published in The United States Specialist, March 2024, Vol. 95, No. 3, Whole Number 1129, pp. 113-114. A PDF is...

Stamped envelopes are considered "back of book," or "BOB" items. These are philatelic items that appear after regular stamp issues in...

In December 1947, John Schott was an 11-year-old living in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. If he was a baseball fan - and I suspect he was...

This 1-cent postal card shown in Figure 1 was issued by the Post Office in 1886. In the US Scott Catalog, it is number UX9. It is a...

In the 1870s and again in the 1980s, the Post Office issued stamps and stamped envelopes that were used by agencies of the Federal...

The stamped envelope in Figure 1 has an embossed stamp that I believe is design U80 in the US Scott Catalog. The envelope color is not...

Between August 23, 1886 and June 30, 1894, the US Post Office issued a 2-cent letter sheet with an imprinted stamp that depicted Ulysses...

This cover will not be found in the Scott catalog (if it were, it would definitely be a "back of book" item), but it was a step in the...

Between 1798 and 1800, the US and France engaged in an undeclared naval war, the so-called “Quasi War.”[i] Tensions between the US and...

During the Civil War, one of the ways the Union raised funds was to require the payment of taxes on documents like bank checks and bonds...