Thursday, December 8  

SESSION ONE

"The Varying Purposes of Stamp Messaging"

Moderator: Elizabeth Brown

• "Postal Politics: Soviet Stamps of World War II" - K. Andrea Rusnock (bio)

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• "The Eagle, the Rocket and the Moon: U. S. Postal Iconography at the End of History" - Laura Goldblatt (bio) & Richard Handler (bio)

(abstract | presentation | video)

• "Politico-Philatelic Semiosis in Russia’s 2014 Crimea Issues" - Aristide LaVey (bio)

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Discussant: William Moskoff

SESSION TWO

"Postal Networks and the Flow of Information"

Moderator: Susan Smith

• "The Reform Postal Systems in the Process of Structuring and Construction of Imperial States in the 18^th Century" - Rocio Moreno Cabanillas (bio)

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• "Gathering Vassals Around the Throne’: The Political Economy of Postal Communications in 19th Century Brazil" -  Perola Goldfeder (bio)

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• "From Three Months to Three Seconds: The Evolution of Mail Delivery from the Renaissance to the Present Day" - Francesco Morriello (bio)

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Discussant: Richard Morel

SESSION THREE

"The Postal Service in American Life"

Moderator: Jennifer Lynch

• "Why the U. S. Ended Sunday Mail in 1912" - Rebecca Brenner Graham (bio)

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• "Rethinking Postal Politics: The National Association of Letter Carriers Ladies’ Auxiliary, 1905-1925" - Alison Bazylinski (bio)

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• "Big Mail: From Public Good to Private Profit" - Diane DeBlois & Robert Dalton Harris (bio)

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Discussant: Lynn Heidelbaugh

Friday, December 9

SESSION FOUR

"Regimes in Flux: Their Impact on Postal Operations and Stamp Design"

Moderator: Scott Tiffney

• "Lion or Eagle: Sovereignty, A Postal Authority, and the Mails. Finland 1890-1918" - Roger Santala (bio)

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• "Regime Change in Vietnam: Issues of the Provisional Revolutionary Government and Restoration of Postal Services in the Defeated South" - Earl Toops (bio)

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Discussant: James Grayson

SESSION FIVE

"Stamp Iconography in Fascist Regimes"

Moderator: Sheila Brennan

• "The ‘Fascist Style’ in Italian Philately, 1922 – 1941" - Daniel Piazza (bio)

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• "Hitler’s Mundane Messengers: The Banal Nationalism of Third Reich Postage Stamps" - Zachary Agatstein (bio)

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• "Historical Figures on the Postage Stamps of Franco’s Spain: The Catholic Monarchs" - Guillermo Navarro Oltra (bio)

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Discussant: Stanley Brunn

Symposium Day 1: Monday October 26, 2020

• Keynote Address: "Postal Innovation in the Classic Era" - Scott R. Trepel
  (video)
• "Rise of the American Post 1639-1781" - Timothy O'Connor
  (video)
• "Postal History of the Issue of 1847" - Gordon Eubanks
  (presentation | video)

Symposium Day 2: Tuesday October 27, 2020s

• “Early Railroads Carry the Mail" - James Milgram
  (video)
• "The British Colonial Post Office Controversy: A Letter from the Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution" - Anthony Gallagher
  (abstract | video)
• "Steaming Mail: Introduction of the First High-Tech Postal Service" - John Laurence Busch
  (abstract | video)

Symposium Day 3: Wednesday October 28, 2020

• "Mails of Navassa Island, The Original Overseas United States Possession, 1876-1898" - Ken Lawrence
  (abstract | video)
• "Government Post in Hawaii: Creation and Reform – 1849 - 1859" - Fred Gregory
  (video)
• "U.S. Post Riders in Spanish West Florida, 1801-1810" - Yamil Kouri, Jr.
  (video)

Symposium Day 4: October 29, 2020

• "Evolution of Intercity Mail Transportation Modes 1840-1880: Insights from Postmaster General Annual Reports" - William DeWitt, III
  (abstract | presentation | video)
• "Toll Gates & Toll Houses: Assistance or Hindrance for Mail Delivery Modes" - William Schultz
  (presentation | video)
• "Blazing Trails for the Westward Expansion" - Steven Walske
  (presentation | video)

Symposium Day 5: October 30, 2020

• "Confederate States of America: Postal Innovation during the Civil War" - Patricia Kaufmann
  (video)
• "The “Special” Postalization of Locale" - Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris
  (abstract | presentation | video)
• "The New York Postmaster Provisional" - Mark Schwartz
  (presentation | video)

Symposium Session 1: Postal Employees and Communication Networks

• "Civilian and Military Organization of Mail Operations for the American Expeditionary Forces" - Lynn Heidelbaugh
• "The First World War, Female Telegraphists and the General Post Office’s Employment Priorities" - Joanna Espin
• "U.S. Army Signal Corps Telephone & Telegraph in the Great War" - Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris
• "World War I Impacts on Chile's Security Printing Plant Development" - Bill Lenarz

Exhibit Presentations

• “War Savings and Thrift Stamps-Helping Fund the Great War” - Harry Charles
• “Red Cross Activities Before, During and After WWI (1912-1923)” - Jack Elder
• “Prisoner of War Camps in Japan, 1914-1920. Opportunities for Exploration, Research and Study” - Harold Krische
• “The Versailles Peace Treaty: The Role of Diplomatic and Military Mail” - Ravi Vora

Symposium Session 2: Censorship and Surveillance

• "Zanzibar Mails – WWI" - Gary DuBro
• "Civilian Postal Censorship in India During the World War I Era" - Robert Gray
• "Postal Censorship of the Press during World War I" - Nancy Pope
• "The Revolution Will Not be Mailed: The US Post Office’s Role in Antiradicalism During and After World War I" - Adam Quinn

Symposium Session 3: The Mail

• "The Mail of Prisoners of the Great War: Picture Postcards and Aid-Related Cards" - Alexander Kolchinsky
• "Returning to a Country They No Longer Recognized" - Kevin Lowther
• "Write that Letter Home: Senders, Recipients, and the Content of World War I Correspondence” - Jim Miller

Symposium Keynote

• James Peter Gough RDP FRPSL

Symposium Session 1

• A Non-Treaty Postal Agreement of the United States Post Office Department with the British Post Office as a significant early step towards the development of United States airmail to foreign destinations - Murray Abramson
  (read abstract | presentation)
• Newspapers in the Mails: Postal Unification of the British American Colonies - Diane DeBlois & Robert Dalton Harris
  (read abstract | presentation)
• 1836 Anglo-French Postal Convention (AF1836) - Geoffrey Lewis
  (read abstract | paper | presentation)

Symposium Session 2

• Lines of Connectivity - John Scott
  (read abstract | presentation)
• Behind the Bull’s Eye: Brazilian Postal Reforms in the first half of the Nineteenth Century (1829–1844) - Pérola Castro
  (read abstract | presentation)
• Bermuda as the Crossroads of the Atlantic 1615–1877 - Art Groten
  (read abstract | presentation)

Symposium Keynote

• “A Pan Am Flight Cover Literally Changed My Life” by Jon E. Krupnick (YouTube Video)

Symposium Session 1

• German Trans-Atlantic Airmail Services 1929–1939 - James W. Graue (YouTube Video)
• Aeropostale and Air France: A Decade of South-Atlantic Airmail - Daniel V. Gribbin ( YouTube Video)
• L.A.T.I., Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane: The Italian Air Service to South America, December 1939–December 1941 - Samuel J. Pezzillo (YouTube Video)

Symposium Session 2

• The Bathurst Connection: The Centrality of Gambia to the Development of Transatlantic Air Mail- Gary Wayne Loew
  ( YouTube Video)
• Development of Transpacific Airmail Routes by the Naval Air Transport Service - William Fort

Symposium Session 3

• "The Veil has been Lifted" Fisherman’s Lake, PAA Builds a Seaport in the Jungle - David E. Crotty
• Development of WWII Transpacific Airmail Service by the U.S. Army - William Fort
• The Kingdom of Yugoslavia and the South East European Air Mail Connection to North America (1939–1941) - Ratomir Zivkovic
  (YouTube Video)

Postal History Society Talk

• The Fort Sumter Issue of 1961: A Commemorative in Conflict – David M. Frye

Postal History Symposium Session 1

• How the Post Office in Elmira, NY met the challenges of the American Civil War – Alan Parsons
• Decorated Envelopes as Weapons of War – Ken Lawrence
• American Civil War Postage Due: North and South – Harry K. Charles, Jr.
• Balancing the Books: Newspapers & the Postal Business of the Confederacy – Diane DeBlois & Robert Dalton Harris

Postal History Symposium Session 2

• The Madison, Florida Postmaster Provisionals: Anatomy of a Postal History Research Project – Patricia A. Kaufmann
• “Cold Mountain”: Philatelic Props Developed for the Movie – Thomas J. Richards

Postal History Symposium Session 3

• Confederate Generals’ Mail, 1861-1865 – Brian Green & Alexander Green
• Economic Activity Following the Civil War Indexed by Postal Money Order Data – Terence Hines & Thomas Velk
• Union and Confederate Soldiers’ Stationery: Their Designs and Purposes – Steven R. Boyd
• Where are the Confederate Route Agents? – Douglas N. Clark

Postal History Symposium Session 1

• No Fries ’Til Mail—How tourism brought mail service to the Grand Canyon – Marjory J. Sente
• The U.S. Special Handling Service - “Live Chicks” - And so much more - Require First Class Treatment – Robert G. Rufe
• Promotion of Air Mail in the U.S. by Government and Industry – Arthur H. Groten M.D.
• The Standardization of American Mail Order, 1860-1900 – Sarah A. Johnson, Ph.D.
• Order No. 10 – Post Office Protection of the Express Cartel – David L. Straight

Postal History Symposium Session 2

• How Postcards Saved The Rural Free Delivery – Dan Gifford, Ph.D.
• Stamp Cancellations at a Rural Post Office in the 1940’s – Erick Lee Erickson, Ph.D.
• Antebellum Transformations in Postal Architecture – Katherine Miller
• Postal History and Network Art – Andrew Oleksiuk
• Parcel Post Postage Due Stamps – Harry K. Charles, Jr., Ph.D.
• “It’s in the Bag” – The Shape of Turn-of-the-Century Mail – Robert Harris & Diane Deblois
• Role of the US Postal Money Order System in the Creation of the Mail Order Business – Terence Hines & Thomas Velk
• Business Reply Mail Service – Richard D. Martorelli
• Commerce, Industry, and Communications – David Hochfelder