Quick summary: Year of the Tiger, Pete Seeger, pioneering marine biologist Eugenia Clark, Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham, women’s rowing (four designs), Native American/African American sculptor Edmonia Lewis for the Black Heritage series, National Marine Sanctuaries (16 stamps), pony cars (Mustang, Challenger, Camaro, Cougar, Javelin), elephants (1 stamp), Native American modernist artist George Morrison (5 stamps), Mighty Mississippi (10 stamps),, Title IX (the civil rights law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in any educational program or activity), cryptology, blackberries, and assorted flowers.
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What? No Star Wars stamps?
Seriously, thanks for the info – you have a great column. But, I’m done with the US Stamp Program after their failure to issue a stamp for the 100th birthday of John Glenn last year. Over the past few years, they have failed to issue stamps for:
-250th anniversary of the French & Indian War
-500th anniversary of the Reformation
-100th anniversary of US entry into WWI (and only one measly WWI stamp)
-75th anniversary of WW II – Pearl Harbor, D-Day, etc. (likely the last time the USPS could have honored our living WW II vets). The UK honored D-Day, but the USPS didn’t.
-50th anniversary of Apollo 8
-Ray Bradbury’s 100th Birthday
-John Glenn’s 100th Birthday
-Also, the 50th anniversary stamp for Apollo 11 was shoddy & looked like it was put together at the last minute.
I don’t know what’s going on with the US Stamp Program or the Advisory Committee but it’s an embarrassing failure.
I totally agree they fail to issue stamps on some important events and people like John Glenn 100th Birthday. I just don’t understand how they choose new stamps Advisory Committee members now. They sure need some people with a history background. i also some of the art illustrated are now as good as it us to be. I don’t the use of photos. Let a artist create something.
It’s rumored that rights were a problem with John Glenn and at least one of the Science Fiction writers, possibly Bradbury. I can’t imagine in this day and age a stamp for a war against Native Americans, and, besides, that wasn’t a U.S. war, it was the British colonial regime. In fact, I would have been upset if the U.S. had issued a stamp for the French & Indian War. The Reformation is a religious event that predated the U.S.; again, IMHO the U.S. should not have issued a stamp for that (although it did issue a stamp in 1983 for the 500th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther), because the Reformation had nothing to do with the U.S. specifically.
Agreed. It isn’t a matter of just choosing subjects and going to print. You have to negotiate the rights to use a person’s image and the rights holder will want a level of compensation that may make it hard to cover a stamp’s costs, especially as mail volumes continue to decline. Perhaps we should request that the committee publicize a wish list of future subjects….with the hopes that public support would encourage right’s holders to be reasonable with their compensation requests.
There is a “rights” problem for using Glenn’s official Senate photos or NASA photos of his Friendship 7 flight? I find that difficult to believe. Those were paid by tax payers and are available for public use. Even if this were true, there is no “rights” issue with portraying Friendship 7 or the Mercury Atlas launching. A stamp still could have been produced.
Either I’m missing something or this is just a lame USPS excuse to cover their failure.
I completely disagree with your interpretation of the French & Indian War – it was NOT a war against Native Americans. It was a war between the British & the French and BOTH the British and the French had Native Americans allies fighting on their side. The French and Indian War was a critical event that lead to American Independence.
The Reformation was also a historical, political, and social event that dramatically changed Western civilization. We can’t pretend it didn’t happen because it began as a religious dispute.
Sorry, there is no “history eraser button” that can erase critical historical events in order to virtue signal with woke sensibilities. The USPS stamp program is free to do what they want, but I will not support this current farce and will express my opinion about it whenever I feel like it.
Should we just pretend that