The Tewksbury Historical Society will host a talk on U.S History Through Postage Stamps by Peter Cerrato on Sunday, March 17, at 1 p.m. at the meeting hall on Water Street in Mountainville. The talk ...

History can be a fascinating subject. A little knowledge of history stretched too far can make a guy think he knows something he doesn’t. Case in point: I heard mention about the first U.S. postage ...

You can learn a lot about history from a tiny postage stamp. A mint condition sheet of 90-year-old Graf Zeppelin air mail stamps depicts the German airship that carried passengers between the United ...

Space exploration and astronomy have been immortalized in stamp form many times over the decades. See photos of of space-themed postage stamps from the United States and around the world here. This ...

Penny Black, the world’s first postage stamp—one from the first sheet printed—is expected to sell for between £4 million and £6 million (US$5.5 million and US$8.3 million) at an upcoming auction in ...

The stamp honoring the inventor of electronic television was issued as part of the American Inventors series in 1983. (Credit: Courtesy of The World Stamp Show) One of the highest honors a TV show can ...

Postage stamps are not just tokens we use to send letters – they also form part of our social history. Ian Briggs looks at how developments in nuclear physics have been depicted in postage stamps ...

For 27-year-old Adnan Hussain Nanjee of Karachi, Pakistan, postage stamps are more than just postage stamps: They tell the history of his country. "Take a look for yourself," says Nanjee, who was in ...

Sark is to issue its first postage stamps, marking a historic milestone. It is the first island to issue British stamps for more than 40 years, after Alderney launched its own stamps in 1983. The ...

Earthscapes "Forever" stamps are being issued by the U.S. Postal Service. The U.S. Postal Service's first priority mail stamp, issued on July 20, 1989, commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Apollo ...