If you’ve been following along, you’ll have noticed a pattern forming: a run of stamps […]
Month: August 2026
Sacagawea and the 1994 Legends of the West Stamp
We’ve spent the last few posts working through a small cluster of stamps tied to […]
The Other Clark: George Rogers Clark, Fort Sackville, and the Bicolor Stamp
Ask most people to name a famous American explorer named Clark, and you’ll get “Clark” […]
The Younger Clark: William Clark and the 2004 Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Stamp
Having spent some time with the elder brother — George Rogers Clark, the frontier general […]
Frederic Remington and “The Smoke Signal”
On October 4, 1961, the United States Post Office Department issued a 4-cent stamp honoring […]
C.S. Lewis: Creating Narnia
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien met at Oxford in 1926 and became two of the […]
Octavio Paz: Poet of Solitude and Communion
In 1990, when the Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Octavio Paz, […]