Real Persons on Coins: Ominous Precedents and a Paleofeminist Plea

A brief history of "Liberty" on United States coin

From State to Free-State: The Meaning of the Word 'Republic' from Jean Bodin to John Adams

History of the changing meaning and importance of the word "republic/respublica/république/republik" in major Western cultures and languages since the origin of the term in ancient Rome and its conflation with the Greek term "politeia.