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Blount Symposium on Postal History - CALL FOR PAPERS
"When the Mail Goes to War," September 26-27, 2008 at the National Postal Museum. Paper proposals are invited for the 2008 Postal History Symposium, the third annual, national conference for academic scholars, philatelists, and industry experts to discuss their research into the history of postal organizations and systems.

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October 21-22, 2007:
Further, Farther, Faster: Transportation Technology and the Mail

This Postal History Symposium, the second national conference sponsored by the American Philatelic Society and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, provided a forum in which philatelists, academic scholars of postal organizations and systems, public historians, and the interested public discussed and presented research integrating philately and the history of postal operations within the broader context of American history.

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October 17, 2007:
Technologies, Technologists & Networks: A Symposium on the History of Communication Technologies

From 17 – 22 October 2007, the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) met in Washington, DC, and celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. As part of that celebration, the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum hosted a one-day symposium on the history of communication technologies on October 17, 2007.

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November 3-4, 2006:
What is Postal History?: The Blount Symposium on Postal History

Rarely do scholars of postal organizations and systems meet and discuss their ideas and research with scholars of philately. In an attempt to bridge this gap, the National Postal Museum and the American Philatelic Society hosted a national conference on November 3 and 4, 2006, to bring together these two research groups.
       












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