New perspectives on how history is made
Both men won the presidency in part through racist rhetoric and actions.
If anything, Trump is more like John C. Calhoun.
Our candidate for a white guy on our currency would be Albert Gallatin, not Alexander Hamilton.
The Times says Hamilton should remain on the $10 bill.
"A dozen years ago, I fought to keep the faces of our early heroes on our currency. Now I say: Off with their heads!"
And that’s just the start. Let’s put Frederick Douglass on the other side of the Lincoln $5 bill.
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