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The National Postal Museum (NPM) desires to launch an online Postal Memory Book on its museum website in order to document and preserve stories detailing the history and work of former and current postal employees, the heart of the postal system. This online Postal Memory Book will add rich and valuable content to the museum’s collection of historical information relating to the history and development of the post in America.

The Center moved to a set of trailers called the Pohick Module on the Mason campus in 2002. In 2005, Pohick was infested with fleas and required fumigation.

Home of the Center, 2002-2006

Pictured (left to right) Jeremy Boggs, Tom Scheinfeldt, Ken Albers, Dave Lester. CC-BY -> Finn Arne Jørgensen

Two fourth-grade students in Alexandria, Virginia analyze John Smith's 1612 map of Virginia. The Teaching America History grant supported teachers incorporating historical thinking in their classrooms.

Peopling the American Past is a Teaching American History project designed in partnership with the Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Frederick, Manassas City, Orange, and Winchester Public Schools and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to increase teachers' and students' knowledge of traditional American history and ability to analyze primary sources and think historically. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, TAH grants developed, documented,…