Abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman will replace President Andrew Jackson on the U.S. $20 bill, with a new design to be unveiled in 2020. Photograph by MPI, Getty Images After the Battle of New ...

“That the modern twenty-dollar Federal Reserve Note should bear Andrew Jackson’s portrait is richly ironic,” Howe writes. “Not only did the Old Hero disapprove of paper money, he ...

The announcement by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew that Harriet Tubman will take the place of Andrew Jackson ... kind of monetary purgatory. Jackson’s fear of paper money was legendary.

In the case of Andrew Jackson ... and he made his fortune on their labor. There's also Jackson's opposition to paper money in the first place (he preferred gold and silver), and his long ...

The state banks went a little crazy. They were printing massive amounts of money. The land bubble was out of control. Andrew Jackson tried to slow everything down by requiring that all government ...

The announcement by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew that Harriet Tubman will take the place of Andrew Jackson ... kind of monetary purgatory. Jackson’s fear of paper money was legendary.

Harriet Tubman is in; President Andrew Jackson is out. Treasury Secretary ... He was an ardent critic of paper money. To illuminate this oft-forgotten part of the story, we put some questions ...

director of the Papers of Andrew Jackson at the University of Tennessee. Paper money was printed by individual banks, and their value could fluctuate greatly. Some of it was worthless, and Jackson ...

Andrew Jackson, remembered both as a man of the people ... with Grover Cleveland holding pride of place on the $20. In 1928, federal money went through a design do-over; Cleveland ascended to ...

U.S. paper money is getting a historic makeover ... The leader of the Underground Railroad is replacing the portrait of Andrew Jackson, the nation’s seventh president and a slave owner, who ...