Mail and Aldous Huxley - July 26

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Today is Aunts and Uncles Day, Coffee Milkshake Day, World Tofu Day, Lumberjack Day, Watergun Fight Day, Day of the Cowboy,  and Americans with Disabilities Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
National Park Month Resource of the Day
Ice Cream Month Resource of the Day
Today's Theme: Mail and Aldous Huxley

ON THIS DATE

• 1775 - The Second Continental Congress establishes the first post office and names Benjamin Franklin Postmaster General.
• 1948 - President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, desegregating the U.S. military.
• 1990 - President George H.W. Bush signs the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• 2016 - Hillary Clinton becomes the first woman selected as the presidential candidate of a major party.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1856 - Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw
• 1875 - Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung
• 1894 - English writer Aldous Huxley
• 1923 - Author and illustrator Jan Berenstain
• 1943 - Musician Mick Jagger
• 1945 - Actor Helen Mirren
• 1956 - Figure skater Dorothy Hamill
• 1964 - Actor Sandra Bullock

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• The Marvelettes - Please Mister Postman - LISTEN
• Elvis Presley - Return to Sender - LISTEN
• Wilco - Box Full of Letters - LISTEN
• Fats Waller - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter - LISTEN
• Rolling Stones - Start Me Up - LISTEN

NATIONAL PARK MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

Hagerman Fossil Beds, Idaho - GO

ICE CREAM MONTH RESOURCE OF THE DAY

PBS Food - Mocha Meringue with Expresso Ice - DO

THEME: MAIL

• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - Mailman in Appalachia (2:15) -  VIEW
• Grades PreK-1- Sesame Street - M is for Mail (0:16) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Post Office Field Trip (7:14) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-3 - NHPBS Learning Media- Blossom and Snappy Go to the Post Office (26:41) - VIEW and DO
• Grades K-5 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Arthur - Post Office Activity - DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - John Held Jr.: Mail Art (9:06) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - KQED Art School - Mail Art with David Wilson (5:06) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - The Pony Express - READ and DO
• Grades 9-12 -  PBS LearningMedia - Japanese 233 - At the Post Office (26:43) - VIEW, READ, DO

THEME: ALDOUS HUXLEY 

• Grades 7-12- NHPBS Video  - Blank on Blank - Aldous Huxley on Technodictators (6:04) -  VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - National Endowment for the Humanities - The Talented Mr. Huxley - READ

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339