Here’s another installment of my “digital history” companion project to my academic research, and “specialty,” in the History of the United States Dollar. If you didn’t catch my previous post with my video short on the United States Peace Dollar, you should give it a look-see.
Source: Library of Congress (LOC)
Pro Tip: Check out the last verse.
A phrase equated, almost automatically, with money but dating back (at least) to the full version of Francis Scott Key’s Star-Spangled Banner–written in 1814, and our national anthem since 1931.
With the help of the legendary Curator Emeritus at the American Numismatic Society in New York, Robert Hogue–who I had the pleasure and honor to interview in 2015, as a fellow in their prestigious Eric P. Newman Seminar series–I get to the root of this now-revered phrase.
This short video introduces us to origins of the somewhat unusual–but ubiquitous–motto that’s been emblazoned on our money (paper and metal) for all of our lifetimes, “In God We Trust.”
