Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, and the Post (Digital Humanities)
Stamping American Memory explores the connections among postage stamps, collectors, citizens, and the post. Drawing on digital humanities approaches, Sheila Brennan considers how these objects and practices participate in American memory, offering a thoughtful study of collecting, civic culture, and the historical meanings attached to everyday material life.
About This Book
Stamping American Memory examines the relationship between postage stamps, collecting, citizenship, and American memory.
Sheila Brennan approaches the subject through the lens of digital humanities, connecting material culture with methods for studying historical information.
The book considers the post and stamp collecting as important parts of civic and cultural life.
It offers readers an accessible introduction to the ways everyday objects can help reveal how societies remember and represent the past.
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