From Tears to Triumph: Wilma Mankiller Blazed Her Own Trail
2022-P Wilma Mankiller U.S. Women Quarter The year: 1969. The event: Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island. The importance: First intertribal protest about the condition of indigenous peoples in the United States. The impact...
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In the Eye of the Beholder
We were excited about the World’s Fair of Money running August 16-20! Those of us who write the Heads & Tails blog articles are especially thrilled by the focus of this year’s Sundman Lecture...
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A tale of Treasure…
The Lost Gold of the Confederacy
As the Civil War’s end became increasingly apparent, President Jefferson Davis and top members of his government retreated further south. In early April 1865, rumors ran rampant that they carried with them an impressive...
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One Giant Leap for Women
Fourteen years after Neil Armstrong famously said from the moon’s surface, “One giant leap for mankind,” Dr. Sally Ride made the giant leap into space for American women in 1983. Ride’s latest news-making leap...
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