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National Postal Museum Announces Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award Recipients

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum has announced the 2025 Smithsonian Philatelic Achievement Award recipients, Gordon Edwin Eubanks Jr., Christopher Miles Bertram King and Patrick Valère Maria ...
WUSA

Revisiting history at the National Postal Museum

WASHINGTON — The United States Postal Service has been in the headlines for months as we’ve all come to rely on mail more than ever during the pandemic. Of course, there’s no better place to learn ...
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National Postal Museum

The Smithsonian’s NationalPostalMuseum is dedicated to the preservation, study and presentation of postal history and philately. (Note: Philately is the collection and study of postage stamps, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How the Civil War Spawned the Mail-In Ballot

At the National Postal Museum, a new exhibition traces the long history of a newly popular way of voting Lonnie G. Bunch III Not just for national elections, absentee ballots were also used by the ...
NPR

A new mail-voting exhibition is a reminder that its use dates back to the Civil War

Four years ago, millions more voters in the U.S. became familiar with voting by mail. But a new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum opens Saturday as a reminder that earlier ...