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NO FAN OF PAPER MONEY. In Jackson’s day there was no single national currency, said historian Daniel Feller, director of the Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee.
Harriet Tubman is in; President Andrew Jackson is out. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew's decision to replace Jackson on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor ...
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 bill with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. But Jackson isn’t the only one ...
President Jackson left a complicated legacy worth remembering, even if he does get booted off the $20. The Worth of Andrew Jackson A long-building campaign to get Andrew Jackson off our national ...
Professor Robert Remini discussed his book, [Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars], published by Viking Press. The book is about the former president and his relationship with Native Americans ...
It is certainly time for our currency to bear the faces of African Americans and women. But this admirable effort shouldn’t come at Andrew Jackson’s expense. Jackson was a deeply flawed ...
Nearly 200 years after his death, Andrew Jackson is stepping away from the United States' cultural consciousness. Jackson will soon no longer appear on the front of the $20 bill, capping a decades ...
Program note: Explore the vicious rematch between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams on “Race For The White House,” Sunday, April 3, at 9 p.m. You’ve probably heard about the movement to ...
On this day in 1830, 193 years ago, President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. The Act established a process whereby the president could grant land west of the Mississippi River to ...