A comprehensive history of the U.S. Post Office traces its origins and leaders and describes its role in every major event in American history, from the Revolutionary War to the dawn of the Internet age.

Photographs and text describe how the United States Postal Service collects, processes, and delivers mail.

Discusses the eighteen month history, officially beginning April 3, 1860, of the mail delivery between Saint Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, known as the Pony Express.

Relates the history of the Pony Express from when it began to carry messages across the American West in April 1860 until the telegraph replaced it in October 1861.

Describes the circumstances under which the Pony Express was founded, how it was organized, the rough territory and general hardships faced by the riders, and the technological innovation that ended it.

Briefly surveys the eighteen-month history of the Pony Express with related projects and activities such as sock puppets, magnets, and a diorama.

Hundreds of historic TV sets are on display at the Early Television Museum, ranging from the late 1920s to the early 1960s. Snow provides a lovely natural canvass for the scenery feature at Caesar Creek State Park in southern Ohio. Grand pipe organs are a vanishing breed of muscial instruments. Hear one in all its glory. Watch a profile of Charlie Chaplin, one of the top entertainers of the early 20th century. The time capsule looks at the mail delivery...