Hooray for Harriet!!!

The U.S. Treasury took a while, didn't it?   Well..at least the ball is rolling. Sometime around 2020 it will unveil a new design for the $20 bill...with abolitionist Harriet Tubman front and center..literally.   An historic move to say the least.  It has been a mere century since a woman (Martha Washington) appeared on American paper  … Continue reading Hooray for Harriet!!!

An Idea Whose Time Has Come

          "For Why!!??"  you ask. The answer:  Perhaps because it's about time. In recorded U.S. history, only one woman has appeared on American paper money.  Martha Washington's picture was on $1 silver certificates back in the 1880's.  Since then it's been all men..all the time (and not all presidents). There is … Continue reading An Idea Whose Time Has Come