Nov 15: USPS Announces 2025 Stamps.

I'm not sure that many countries have "history that all of us can unite around", the US perhaps less than most.

To those who want history on stamps, I hope you are sending suggestions to CSAC. Not everyone on committee thinks of everything. I had proposed a stamp for the 200th anniversary of completion of the Erie Canal, which opened up the country to expansion in 1825. It is not there, but this is only a partial list of 2025 stamps, so I have hope.

I would count this year's First Continental Congress stamp as the first toward our nation's 250th (we also had the Repeal of the Stamp Act stamp in 2016, which could also be No. 1 toward the anniversary.)

Without Betty White there would be no Mary Tyler Moore. She was doing TV 20 years before MTM. And the history of a nation includes it's famous people. Culturally important fame is certainly a valid reason for being included on a stamp. The agreement of all 350 million people is not required. No one is going to like every person, place, or event on every stamp issue. That would be impossible. And anyone that thinks that every issue back in the day was about history needs to go back and look in the catalog for a while. Especially post 1920. Before that it was pretty myopic.

Anyone looking at the history of film or TV knows that each era influences the next, and that some of the early women who made it created the possibility of future generations of stars. Their success made the next group possible.