Posts Tagged ‘history of American in 36 postage stamps’
And we have a winner! (Two, actually)
Thanks to all of you who took the time to throw your names in to the medium size mixing bowl to win a copy of Chris West’s A History of America in 36 Postage Stamps or his earlier foray into history through philately. As always when I do a give-away, I learn something from your…
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A History of America in 36 Postage Stamps: A Review and a Giveaway
In A History of Britain in 36 Postage Stamps, Chris West took the concept of micro-history to a new degree of micro, using a chronological series of postage stamps as “tiny rectangular time machines”. In his newest work, West uses the microscopic lens of the postage stamp to examine American history. West cleverly opens A…
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