New Book on the Post Office in History and Society from Cameron Blevins

Published: April 15, 2021

Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West, a new book from History Associate Professor CTT Cameron Blevins, was published April 1st. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the late nineteenth-century United States, Cameron Blevins argues that the US Post wove together two of the era's defining projects: western expansion and the growth of state power.

‘Paper Trails’ Review: Go West, Young Mailman
Wall Street Journal, March 24

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