Every stamp and piece of mail tells a story. In fact, each often tells multiple stories, ranging from concept to art design to production to usage, often with tales of politics, history, technology, biography, genealogy, economics, geography, disaster, and triumph. The lens of philately offers a fresh and engaging story of American history, culture, and identity, and it can also help deepen the understanding of world cultures. The William H. Gross Stamp Gallery, opened at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in September 2013, has many such stories to tell. Chief philately curator Cheryl R. Ganz guides readers through some of the gallery's nearly 20,000 objects that together illustrate the history of our nation's postal operations and postage stamps.

Presents an overview of the different stamps issued by the U.S. Postal Service, including commemorative stamps.

'History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America' is a non-fiction book that chronicles the use and development of postage stamps in the U.S. It was written by John Kerr Tiffany, who was one of the earliest American philatelists and was regarded as the second most important person in philately, after John Walter Scott.