Routes to a Nation Gallery Tour
♡ Save keeps it in My GoToday · 📅 Calendar adds this date to your calendar
About this event
How did a collection of scattered colonies become a nation? Join one of the National Postal Museum's curators for a gallery tour exploring the communication networks that connected Americans during the colonial period and early republic.
Learn about Benjamin Franklin's nearly forty-year postal career; how American revolutionaries challenged the royal postal system and established their own; and how merchants used transatlantic correspondence to participate in global commerce.
Based on the new NPM book, Routes to a Nation, recently published by Smithsonian Books, this interactive tour highlights objects that reveal how mail shaped commerce, government, culture, and national identity.
This 45-minute guided tour includes time for questions and discussion.
Presenters:
Lynn Heidelbaugh, Alison Bazylinski, Daniel Piazza (rotating).
Location
Postal Museum, Washington, DC
Listed by Smithsonian. Details can change — check the official page before you go.