population increases in, 79, 104, 183–84
westward expansion of, 2, 3, 47–48, 56, 66, 104, 105, 112, 113–28, 174, 183
United States Postal Service (USPS), 4, 255–73, 275–87
Congress and, 4, 257–58, 268, 269, 276, 277, 282, 284, 285
digital media and, 266–70, 281–83, 286
Office of the Inspector General, 283
PAEA and, 271–72, 282
Post Office Department transformed into, 255–56, 273
retail services of, 285–86
technology and, 261
work sharing and, 258–59, 280
Universal Postal Union, 153
Upson, Warren “Boston,” 135–36
U.S. Custom House, New Orleans, La., 103
U.S. Sanitary Commission, 145
Vail, Theodore N., 162
valentines, 97–99
Van Buren, Martin, 53
Vanderbilt, William, 170, 184
Vesey, Denmark, 76
Victorian era, 94–96, 100, 102, 111, 211
Victory Mail, 4, 237
Vietnam War, 250, 264, 265
Village Post Office program, 286
Virginia, 15, 18
voluntary associations, 73–77
Waddell, William, 130, 137
Waite, Morrison, 242
Walker, Amasa, 82
Wanamaker, John, 4, 105, 163, 166, 173, 187–90, 193, 195, 198, 203, 206, 213, 244, 246, 266
war bonds, 238
Ward, Aaron Montgomery, 205
War of 1812, 76, 104
Washington, Booker T., 262
Washington, George, 1, 25, 27, 28, 30–37, 39, 44, 47–48, 52, 60, 61, 63, 67, 109, 110
on stamps, 88, 100–101, 147, 232
Washington Territory, 123
Webster, Noah, 44–45
Wells, Henry, 138
Wells Fargo, 125–27, 131, 138, 139, 205, 206
Western Union, 184–87
Westman, Miss, 196
Whigs, 67, 70–71, 76, 84, 93, 113, 148
Whistler, James McNeill, 232
Whitefield, George, 19–20
Whitman, Alice, 118
Whitman, Marcus, 117–19
Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 116–19
Wick, Temperance, 109
Wickliffe, Charles, 81
Williams, Andy, 164
Wilson, William, 190
Wilson, Woodrow, 181, 187, 198–200, 217, 218, 220, 222
Winston, Harry, 239
Winthrop, John, 14
Wise, John, 221
women, 43, 73
African American, 238
letters and, 94–95
in postal positions, 3, 108–11, 153–56, 195–97, 237–38, 263–64
public status of, 95–96
Revolution and, 109
suffrage movement, 95, 199
Woodson, Samuel, 123
work sharing, 258–59, 280
World War I, 4, 144, 179, 207, 237, 240
World War II, 4, 217–19, 222, 231, 236–38, 239, 240, 265
Worthington, Elisha, 156
Worthington, James Mason, 156
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 221
Wright, Rose, 110
Wyeth, N. C., 178
Xerox, 269
Yarborough, Ralph, 260
yellow fever, 194
Yellowstone National Park, 176–77
Young, Ammi B., 96, 103, 203
Young, Brigham, 123
Zane, Ebenezer, 55
ZIP codes, 247–48, 259, 261
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