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...

Daniel Webster (Figure 1) was a prominent lawyer and politician in the antebellum period. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives,...

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

The 1844 U.S. presidential election between Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay was a nailbiter. Marked by controversies over slavery...