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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 ...
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.
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 ...
“We have been putting dead white statesmen on our coins for so long that it’s been unquestioned for some time now,” says a Jackson scholar.
History Dept. Keep Andrew Jackson on the $20 Critics of the current $20 bill forget the president who made American democracy democratic.
President Jackson left a complicated legacy worth remembering, even if he does get booted off the $20.
You’ve probably heard about the movement to replace Andrew Jackson’s image on the $20 bill, but why did the United States put him on there in the first place?
The Quest to Boot Old Hickory Off the $20 New legislation joins the ongoing effort to replace Andrew Jackson on American currency.
Okay, let’s lay out that argument. Why Hamilton and not Jackson? Hamilton’s supporters are largely right about him. It’s common to call him the most important Founding Father who did not ...
U.S. President Donald Trump, beneath a portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, speaks before the swearing-in of Rex Tillerson as 69th secretary of state in the Oval Office of the White ...
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