Coins & Paper Money

She’s given short shrift in modern U.S. history, but the Goddess Columbia enjoyed an early try-out as the symbol of America in the 17th and 18th centuries. Back then, European culture prized progress as

America started the 1800s bursting with the energy of a new nation. Each decade’s developments exceeded the ones before it. Business, politics, geography, culture – all pulsated with progress. But with these changes, came

We’ve all heard the expression “let’s take a selfie!” at one point or another. This phrase has become as common as “a roll of the dice” or “don’t judge a book by its cover”

For Patsy Takemoto Mink, the halls of Congress were a long way from her birth on a Maui sugar plantation. The granddaughter of working-class Japanese immigrants, Patsy was born when Hawaii was just a