While I would rather see a woman put on the $20 rather than the $10, the folk on this talk show (including my favorite Not-a-Historian, David Barton, Dolt) seem profoundly outraged at the near-sacrilege of removing Alexander Hamilton and, maybe (or maybe not) the Treasury Building from the sawbuck, all in favor of a "politically expedient" woman. It's practically blasphemy, and a revisionist attempt to wipe out our 2+ century reverence for our economic system that has been a tribute in print ever since that dark day when Aaron Burr slew the heroic Alexander Hamilton! Eek!
(Note for all actual historians: Hamilton didn't get put on the $10 bill until 1929, as part of the "small-size" note Series of 1928. Prior denizens on large-size $10 notes included Andrew Jackson, Michael Hillegas, Lewis & Clark, Thomas Hendricks, Ben Franklin, Daniel Webster, Salmon P Chase, and Abe LIncoln.)
Barton: Adding A Woman To The $10 Bill Would ‘Denigrate’ The Treasury Department And Our Entire Economic System
Last month, the Treasury Department announced that a woman would be featured on the $10 bill when it is redesigned in 2020 and David Barton was so outraged that he brought the National Review’s Qu
