(This was published in the Badger Postal History , Volume 64, Number 2, November 2024. A PDF is attached.) Many covers with patriotic...

This first day cover from 1932 has a lot going on. Let's start with the stamps. On January 1, 1932, in celebration of George Washington's...

In addition to fighting on the land, in the air, and on the sea during World War 2, the combatants also were engaged in a propaganda war...

The steamboat was the invention of Robert Fulton, an American engineer. In 1807, his steamboat, the North River Steamboat or the...

This is the oldest item in my collection: A stampless folded letter - probably better described as a self-made envelope - from 1791. As...