https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/coins-us-250th-anniversary.html
George Washington was there. And Benjamin Franklin. And even Abraham Lincoln, who joked that the last time he was in a theater it did not go so well.
These paid re-enactors and other dignitaries gathered the other evening in a Philadelphia auditorium for the unveiling of coins designed to celebrate the country?s 250th anniversary. They provided a traditional, even simple, take on the
American journey, with Pilgrims and founding fathers and a stovepipe hat tip to the Gettysburg Address.
Left unmentioned amid the event?s fife-and-drum pageantry was that these coins also represented a rejection of a different set of designs ? meant to commemorate certain other inspiring chapters of the nation?s history, including abolition,
women?s suffrage and the civil rights movement.
An event largely unnoticed by anyone other than coin enthusiasts, then, wound up reflecting the national struggle over how the American story is told, as the Trump administration seeks to frame any focus on the knottier moments in the
nation?s arc as ?wokeness.?
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