Many people in my family were and are stamp collectors. I started collecting stamps at age six and along with my second grade teacher, started a stamp club at my grade school. I also started a chess club.
Collecting U.S. stamps is a great way to get to know history. Many U.S. stamps help to tell stories about wars, slavery, women suffrage, science, and all forms of art. Those little pictures will often have behind them very in depth lessons of the hardships and perseverance of those that came before us that you can never quite understand from the dry text of a modern history book.
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