On December 2, 1942, the Manhattan Project’s team of scientists produced the world’s first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago. To commemorate this important accomplishment, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum has created a mini-online exhibit highlighting different objects with connections to this event.

National Postal Museum staff got into the holiday spirit last week by decorating this year’s holiday tree. The beautiful live tree and the...

Today is an exciting day in world football (or as we Americans call it, soccer). Officials from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and...

If it’s so cheap and easy to call yourself a mail artist, why don’t more people do mail art?

On November 22, 1963, America's 35th President, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. To commemorate this tragic and pivotal event of the 20th century, the National Postal Museum has created a online mini-exhibit highlighting different postage stamps with connections to President Kennedy's life and legacy.

The benefit of receiving mail from home is incalculable. Many service men and woman today communicate with...

A major highlight of my trip to the Raleigh, North Carolina area two weeks ago was my time with the fourth and fifth grade classes of Brooks Museums Magnet Elementary School. I spent an hour with each grade exploring the ins and outs of the National Postal Museum’s collection website.

Today, The Daily Record Newspaper of Wooster, Ohio featured two front-page stories about Alex Haimann's presentations to student and adult groups in the Wooster/Akron region.

Yesterday afternoon Alex Haimann gave his first scheduled presentation of a four-day long speaking tour in the Akron, Ohio region to the members of the Kiwanis Club of Wooster.

My research project this semester is, in the words of curator/historian Nancy Pope, to research a "rather odd" part of postal history. That "rather odd" part of history is Owney, the late 19th century canine mascot of the Railway Mail Service.