The American Stamp: Postal Iconography, Democratic Citizenship, and Consumerism in the United States

Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: Mailing, Collecting, Cataloguing
	1. The Postal Infrastructure of Democratic Citizenship
	2. Creating Post-postal Value: Stamp Collecting
	3. U.S. Stamps: Cataloguing Polities and Framing National Culture
Part II: Storied Ancestors
	4. Fixing the Iconography of National Ancestry: Dead Heads and Moving Bodies During the U.S. Civil War
	5. Mining History and Marketing Stamps at the World’s Fairs
	6. The People in the Postal Polity: Twentieth-Century Definitive Stamps and the Iconography of Democratic Inclusion
Color Plates
Part III: The Stamp of Neoliberalism
	7. Postal People: From Industrial Labor, Black Power, and Social Service to Cartoon Citizenship
	8. Segregating Stamps: From White Definitives to Racialized Commemoratives
	9. How to Do Things with Stamps, Part I: First-Day Covers
	10. How to Do Things with Stamps, Part II: Shooting the Moon
Conclusion: Postal Circulation and Citizenship at the End of the American Century
Acknowledgments
Appendix: How Many People Collect Stamps in the United States?
Notes
Bibliography
Index