{"id":6150,"date":"2016-04-26T06:19:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T10:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2016-04-26T06:26:57","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T10:26:57","slug":"revisionist-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/intramuralist.com\/?p=6150","title":{"rendered":"revisionist history"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The face of American currency is currently very male and very white. After a push by \u201cWomen On 20s\u201d \u2014 a non-profit organization which \u201caims to compel historic change by convincing President Obama that now is the time to put a woman’s face on our paper currency\u201d \u2014 the Treasury Department announced last week that Harriet Tubman would be the new face of the $20 bill.<\/p>\n

Way to go Harriet Tubman!<\/p>\n

(Note: let me share at the onset that the Intramuralist doesn\u2019t have a strong opinion on this matter; that, however, is not the point of today’s post.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Harriet Tubman is regarded as one of America\u2019s most prominent abolitionists; her goal was to eliminate slavery and set people free. Utilizing the Underground Railroad\u2019s network of secret routes and safe houses, Tubman \u2014 who was born into slavery \u2014 escaped and then assisted approximately 70 enslaved people via 13 dangerous, secretive trips, ushering persons out of slavery and into freedom in the 1840\u2019s and 50\u2019s in Maryland.<\/p>\n

Andrew Jackson is the current face of the $20 bill…<\/p>\n

Andrew Jackson served as the seventh U.S. President from 1829 to 1837. He was a courier during the Revolutionary War \u2014 captured and mistreated by his British captors as a teen \u2014 a colonel in the Tennessee militia, the hero of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans, and then later served in both the House of Representatives and Senate, prior to being elected President. His supporters would go on to found what has become the Democratic Party. Jackson, also, was a slave owner. He owned hundreds of slaves.<\/p>\n

As for the bill itself, when\u00a0first issued in 1914, the currency originally featured Grover Cleveland, the country’s 22nd and 24th President. Fifteen years later, Jackson was chosen to don the currency instead.<\/p>\n

Last week, no less, the Treasury Dept. announced multiple future changes to American currency, with Tubman becoming the first African American appearing on U.S. paper money ever, and the first woman in 100 years.\u00a0Treasury Sec. Jack Lew called it a \u201cpowerful message.\u201d Jackson will be moved to the back of the bill.<\/p>\n

Again\u2026 way to go Harriet Tubman!<\/p>\n

What I find interesting is how our opinion of people changes over the course of history. At one point, Andrew Jackson was considered worthy of such an honor; in fact, for decades<\/em> he was considered worthy.<\/p>\n

As time goes on, however, many \u2014 who were not alive when he was, by the way \u2014 believe Jackson is not<\/em> worthy.<\/p>\n

And so it begs the question:<\/p>\n

Who among us now do we feel is worthy of great honor that as time goes on, as history is revised, those who come after will say, \u201cWhat were they thinking?!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Where will the interpretation of history change?<\/p>\n

On whom will history cast a different light than we see now?<\/p>\n

… Barack Obama? … Hillary Clinton? … Donald Trump?<\/p>\n

Oh, that history\u2026<\/p>\n

What a funny and fascinating thing\u2026<\/p>\n

Respectfully\u2026
\nAR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The face of American currency is currently very male and very white. After a push by \u201cWomen On 20s\u201d \u2014 a non-profit organization which \u201caims to compel historic change by convincing President Obama that now is the time to put a woman’s face on our paper currency\u201d \u2014 the Treasury Department announced last week that … <\/p>\n

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