Mrs. Mink Goes to Washington
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...
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Recalling the Fallen with Memorial Day Coin Tributes
In honor of Memorial Day, I’d like to pay tribute to all those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation. On May 30, 1868, the first Decoration Day (now more...
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Finding King Charles III on British Crowns 35 years before his coronation…
On May 6, 2023, the world witnessed an event that hadn’t happened for nearly 70 years – the crowning of a new British monarch, King Charles III. That same year, coins bearing Charles’ image...
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The Age of Calamity
Princeton, Missouri in 1852 was a modest settlement in the Midwest. Situated along a stream, the township had been established just fifteen years earlier by a handful of families. Since then, the town had...
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