Before the advent of mass communication, the neighborhood post office and the church were the very heart of civic life throughout most of rural America. The Smi

This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black free

In the seven decades from its establishment in 1775 to the commercialization of the electric telegraph in 1844, the American postal system spurred a communicati

A masterful history of a long underappreciated institution, How the Post Office Created America examines the surprising role of the postal service in our nation

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many post offices in the United States in 1899 t