In fifth grade, I began looking for historical information on the characters my stamps showed. I've always wanted to make my collection into an educational tool. The Web is the perfect medium for doing that. Most of the information was gleaned from various Web sites about the individuals. All stamp values come from The Official 1999 Blackbook Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps by Marc Hudgeons and Tom Hudgeons.
Prices are for fine quality used and unused individual stamps.
Joseph Luft's Philatelic Resources on the Web is the oft-cited Mecca of online stamp collectors. You'll find it quite impressive in its sheer volume of stamp-related links. Their Stamp on History was built mostly on a Macintosh Powerbook G3 using Adobe Photoshop 5.0 to create the graphics and BBEdit 4.5 to build the HTML pages. If you know of Web sites or reading recommendations that I missed, let me know. If you discover any inaccuracies, tell me about them.