Audio and animated visual presentation on the history of how mail travels, starting in the 1850s. This activity lets you see how quickly you can carry twenty bags of mail from Philadelphia to New Orleans using various methods of travel.

A section of chain mail from a suit of chain mail armor, lorica hamata.

This site deals mostly with the history of mail sent across the country in the late 19th century.

National Public Radio reports on the specifics and the aftermath of the anthrax attacks of October 2001.

The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco provides this article from the 1925 San Francisco Newsletter on the Pony Express, the first transcontinental U.S. Mail service.

Information about the owner of the Overland Mail Express in the United States West.

This slideshow lesson focuses on how to write and reply to professional email. It includes greeting, font, spell check, signature and tips for replying to email.

This essay explores potential problems associated with the all-to-easy email format. Content highlights numerous court cases in which email was used in evidence. The article emphasizes the need to be careful about what you type in a...

This site is the CGI Resource Index and provides all resources needed for the use of CGI scripting. Includes help, programs, books, jobs, web hosting, and more.

Send Sam a title via e-mail and he will draw a picture for it and post it on the web. You have the opportunity to buy it if you like it.

Put together this jig saw puzzle to form a picture of the pony express postage stamp. Click on the link for other related information on the Pony Express from the National Postal Museum.

Use this site to view maps of routes on the Pony Express and also read a brief history.

Built by Gerat H. Hollenberg in 1858, this cabin was associated with the Oregon and California Trails, the Pony Express, and the Butterfield Overland Mail. Hollenberg traded with emigrants on the trails, operated the westernmost Pony...

The only surviving station house on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line. The nearby location of Warner's Ranch was also part of the line.

The only trading post between New Mexico and Los Angeles, this ranch developed into a stop on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach line along with nearby Oak Grove. Now a hot springs resort.

1854 to 1891 Fort Davis protected immigrants, mail coaches, and freight wagons; controlled southern stem of the Great Comanche War Trail and Mescalero Apache war trails.

The former warehouse and offices of the national headquarters of one of the nation's first mail order companies, Montgomery Ward.

Join the Vladimir Horowitz mailing list at this website from Sony Classical, where you can read about Horowitz's life, career, and musical releases. Also, listen to several songs by the "20th century's most acclaimed pianist and the last...

Assyrian archer with suit of mail and bow and arrow.

The Gauntlet is a piece of protective armor for the hand, dating back to the 12th century. The first gauntlets were leather covered gloves with an unarticulated metal back. They evolved from the chain mail bag, which , in the 12th...

A cuirass. The cuirass was worn by the heavy-armed infantry both among the Greeks and Romans. The soldiers commonly wore cuirasses made of flexble bands of steel, or cuirasses of chain mail, but those of generals and officers usually...

A cuirass. The cuirass was worn by the heavy-armed infantry both among the Greeks and Romans. The soldiers commonly wore cuirasses made of flexble bands of steel, or cuirasses of chain mail, but those of generals and officers usually...

From ESPN, an article describing the career of record setting home run king Hank Aaron. Along with the records, Aaron received an abundance of racist hate mail.

An icon for email.