Lincoln
The Penny Gets a Makeover
In this week’s show, Kurt says that we can find the Lincoln Memorial on the back of any old penny. Well, that old penny is getting a new backside. Last week, the United States Mint released a new one-cent coin, in honor of the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth. While it still features his head on […]
The Legacy of Frederick Douglass
The Civil War began 150 years ago today, tearing the nation apart, killing over half a million people, and making household names of men and women on both the union and confederate sides of the conflict. Among the most famous of those names: Frederick Douglass. Already a celebrated writer, orator, and abolitionist before the war, […]