The Atlantic's Steven Heller wrote on July 18 that the U.S. Postal Service's Summer Harvest stamps appeal to the "renewed interest in organic and locally sourced food" and young-ish folks who might be more prone to using the stamps.

Edward Hopper's appealing artwork has appeared on four United States stamps, including two showing urban settings, and two depicting scenes of the New England coast. A 1998 stamp features a detail of his most famous painting, Nighthawks.

Barnstamping is exactly what it sounds like. Check out a photo of a postal-themed barn in West Bath, Maine.

Linn’s Washington Correspondent Bill McAllister recently reported that the Inspector General of the United States Postal Service has taken the nation’s mail agency to task for intentionally creating 100 upright $2 Jenny Invert panes.

A new search function on the website of the American Philatelic Society allows anyone to view images and opinions of stamps submitted for expertization.

By the end of 1905, Costa Rican postal authorities found that they were running short of 1-centimo stamps, even though 200,000 of the current 1c stamp (Scott 45) already had been printed by Waterlow & Sons. The 1c stamp pictures Costa Rican national hero Juan Santamaria.

The seventh issue in the U.S. Literary Arts series was a 1989 stamp honoring the American writer Ernest Hemingway, who won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon. Their incredible feat has been commemorated on several stamps from the United States, and on issues from countries worldwide.

The Dominican Republic, occupying the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, is the second largest Caribbean nation in both area and population, Cuba being the largest. The island was discovered by Columbus on his first voyage, and the capital, Santo Domingo, is the oldest permanent European settlement in the Western Hemisphere.

Along with the standard 16-stamp panes for the Elvis Presley stamp in the Music Icons series, the United States Postal Service will offer two varieties of press sheets.

The inspector general of the United States Postal Service has sharply criticized the agency’s creation of the 100 panes of upright Jenny Invert stamps that were supposed to be randomly distributed along with the 2.2 million normal $2 Jenny Invert panes in 2013.

Here in Sidney, Ohio, when the hot, sultry days of summer are upon us, the Scott catalog editors begin to feel the heat of deadlines for the two Scott specialized catalogs.

Charles H. Mayo was a member of the prominent Mayo family of physicians in Rochester, Minn. The Mayo family practice was the beginning of the Mayo Clinic that exists today.

John Glenn, the former astronaut and U.S. Senator who turns 94 on July 18, has twice had his accomplishments commemorated on United States stamps: once in 1962, and again in 2000.

Also, the Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs left a link to a story about a planned "nurse-in" at a post office in Janesville, WI.

Elvis Presley is making an encore appearance on a new United States forever stamp that will be issued Aug. 12. It’s the second U.S. postal tribute to the performer who was long ago dubbed “the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.” The first, in 1993, caught the attention of almost everyone with a highly publicized public vote to select the design of a stamp that would honor the worldwide music legend.

Among the riches of our stamp hobby is its remarkable literature. This ranges from weekly publications such as Linn’s, to which many contribute, to authoritative handbooks that a dogged scholar creates through years of research, to catalogs that are quite literally the work of generations.

Also this week, Canada's recalled Hoodoo stamps became a hot item on eBay, and Charles Snee gave some perspective on Scott No. 5000.

My monthly column in Linn’s usually features programs written to help collectors keep track of stamps, sources of album pages for saving stamps and websites where they can find out more information about stamps.

Song and dance man, gangster, police commissioner: these roles and many others were filled on the silver screen by James Cagney, who was born July 17, 1899, in New York City.