Category: Post Office
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Post Office Update #3
A new update on the Post Office project, with details on a public talk on Thursday, April 14.
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Post Office Update #2
In which I reveal my confusion at encountering primary sources from the twentieth (and twenty-first!) century.
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Post Office Update #1
Will it work? I’m going to try to write brief updates on my post office project as I do the research and writing.
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The Romance of the Pony Express
I woke up this morning to several notifications from friends that today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 155th anniversary of the first delivery to California by the Pony Express. It’s always great to highlight a little postal history, I say. The Pony Express is part of America’s romantic imagination of itself, with the image of young riders…
Joseph M. Adelman 