Podcast: 1869, the Cornell University Press Podcast
Episode: 1869, Ep. 161 with Rachel Midura, author of Postal Intelligence
Pub date: 2025-03-14

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Rachel Midura is Assistant Professor of Early Modern European and Digital History at Virginia Tech. She researches the history of intelligence, travel, and statecraft in the information age of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Rachel discusses how early modern postal services became central to domestic governance and foreign policy enterprises; how they extended government reach and surveillance; and the pivotal role that the Tassis family played in this history as official postmasters to the dukes of Milan, the pope, Spanish kings, and Holy Roman emperors.

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