Birth of a Motto
WHAT DO YOU know about “In God We Trust,” the motto on U.S. coins and currency? Do you know that it first appeared on the 1864 two cent pieces? Or that its addition was a reaction to the carnage of the Civil War? By the way, don’t you think “Civil War” is an oxymoron? Shouldn’t it be “Uncivil War?”
If you know the facts I stated above, then you know as much as I did when I picked up William Bierly’s In God We Trust: The American Civil War, Money, Banking, and Religion. Bierly’s book was published in 2019 by Whitman Publishing, LLC.
