We think of money these days as anything but tangible. Venmo accounts, credit and debit cards, ACH transfers—we don’t really ...

The last Lincoln penny was recently struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Its removal from circulation marks just one of many changes that American currency has undergone since 1792, when the ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently ...

The history of American currency is a little weird and filled with all sorts of fun facts. Like this one: Should the redesigned note become a reality, the Tubman Twenty will join a very, very short ...

Now here is a book. It instructs and provokes and entertains. Even its mistakes are worthwhile. The secret of “The History of Money” is in the subtitle: “a story of humanity.” For David McWilliams, an ...