Having spent some time with the elder brother — George Rogers Clark, the frontier general […]
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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, […]
Where “Duke” Came From
Long before he was John Wayne, cowboy icon and the most recognizable walk in American […]
Hermes and the First Greek Stamps
When Greece issued its first postage stamps on October 1, 1861, it chose not a […]
Coronado: Arizona’s European History Begins
On September 7, 1940, the U.S. Post Office issued a three-cent violet stamp from Albuquerque, […]
Susan B. Anthony: Two Stamps and a Dollar
Susan B. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before the amendment she had spent her […]
Double Eagle II: The Flight and the Men Who Made It
By 1978, crossing the Atlantic by balloon had become one of aviation’s most stubborn unfinished […]
The Man Who Made the West Look Like That
Before John Ford discovered it, Monument Valley wasn’t a movie backdrop — it was just […]
The Dizziest Shot in Hollywood
Jimmy Stewart spent the 1930s and ’40s playing America’s most trustworthy face — the idealistic […]
Elvis really wanted to be an actor
Everybody knows Elvis could sing. Fewer people remember he spent 13 years trying to convince […]