An armed escort has just transported the world's oldest stamps – the Penny Black – from London to New York. The Victorian stamp revolutionised the postal service in Britain and subsequently around the ...

A significant subset of the e-mail forwards we receive consists of expressions of the theme that blacks are being overlooked and slighted by white Americans, particularly in the economic arena. A ...

The contributions of African Americans in history are celebrated in many ways, and one of those creative outlets is stamps. More than 70 years ago, Booker T. Washington was the first African American ...