Fact Check: Lincoln Penny Is NOT Copper Because He Freed Slaves, Other Coins Do NOT Show Presidents Turning Their Backs On Him In Protest | Lead Stories

America had a Copper Age — and we barely talk about it.” Long before Columbus, Indigenous miners around the Great Lakes were carving pure copper from the cliffs, shaping it into tools and jewelry, and trading it thousands of miles across the continent. Archaeologists have found over 5,000 mine sites and tools still lying where they were left — proof of one of the oldest and most advanced metalworking networks in the world. We talk so much about Europe’s Bronze Age… but this story started right h