USPS grants scholarship awards, write about US postal history and you can win

[The Straight Story]

USPS Grants First Scholarship Awards on Postal History



WASHINGTON, March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A university professor
and a college student will receive two prizes acknowledging excellence for
those who publish works that highlight United States postal history.
Professor David M. Henkin, Department of History at the University of
California-Berkeley and Jesse Vogler, College of Architecture, Texas Tech
University in Lubbock will receive the first Rita Lloyd Moroney Awards from
U.S. Postal Service representatives in recognition of their important
undertakings.

The Rita Lloyd Moroney Awards are designed to encourage scholarship on
the history of the United States postal system and to raise awareness about
the significance of the postal system in American life. They include the
Senior Prize ($2,000) for work published by faculty members, independent
scholars, public historians, and other non-degree candidates and the Junior
Prize ($1,000) for work written or published by undergraduates or graduate
students.

Professor Henkin's book, "The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern
Communications in Nineteenth-Century America" merited the Senior Prize,
while Vogler's paper, "'Correct and Perfect': Post Office Design Guidelines
and the Standardization of the National Postal Landscape," secured the
Junior Prize for its author.

The awards are intended for scholarship on any topic on the history of
the United States postal system from the colonial era to the present --
including the history of the colonial postal system that preceded the
establishment of the United States postal system in 1775. Though
submissions must be historical in character, they can draw on the methods
of disciplines other than history, for example, geography, cultural
studies, literature, communications or economics. Comparative or
international historical studies are eligible if the United States postal
system is central to the discussion.

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Here's my entry:
Stamp prices go up. They never go down. I get my mail from a metal mail box, and to send I put it in a big blue box.

It's a winner fer sure :)

(Just thought I would toss this out there as I have seen quite a few DU'ers interested in history and writing)