Ep. 48: Cameron Blevins: Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West

Cameron Blevins teaches American History and Digital Humanities
at the University of Colorado Denver. His new book, Paper Trails:
The US Post and the Making of the American West (Oxford
University Press 2021) presents a spatial interpretation of the
nineteenth century American State by mapping the sprawling
infrastructure of the nation’s postal network.


Join us as we speak with Cameron about the inspiration behind the
book, discuss several topics that the book covers, and how the
research of past philatelists fueled some of the core datasets.