The Fourteenth Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposium is scheduled for 10–11 December 2026 at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, DC, with online participation through Zoom. Its theme is “Revisiting American Postal History”. The American Philatelic Society, American Philatelic Research Library and National Postal Museum are joint sponsors.

The programme revisits more than 250 years of postal history in the year of the United States’ independence anniversary. Listed subjects include American airship mail between 1919 and 1939, the protection of the US mail through capital punishment, postal activity along the Ohio River, and postcards connected with federal Indian boarding schools.

Other presentations examine postal services and municipal identity in New York, the Flight of the Fast Mail, Prescott’s territorial postmasters and changing post-office locations, mapping along the US–Mexico border, and the nineteenth-century cheap-postage movement.

On-site workshops cover a postal-history thought experiment and research using museum objects. Museum tours include American Stories, American Stamps with curator Alison Bazylinski and early American objects in the galleries.

Registration is free but required. In-person attendees are asked to contact the Blount Research Chair, while online attendees must register separately for each day’s Zoom session.