There has been talk for months about changing the faces on American currency. The Treasury Department had announced plans to remove Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, from the $10 bill, in favor of a woman from America’s past. But largely thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s groundbreaking (and box office-breaking) hit hip-hop Broadway musical Hamilton, the “ten dollar founding father without a father” will remain on our money.

Instead, Andrew Jackson, the seventh president who infamously persecuted Native Americans, will be replaced by Harriet Tubman, former slave, abolitionist, and crucial part of the Underground Railroad, on the front of the $20 bill. Tubman will be the first African American to ever be shown on the front of American paper currency.

That’s not all, though. While Hamilton and sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln are remaining on the $10 bill and $5 bill, respectively, the backs of both bills will feature some of the most important women and figures in American history. On the back of the $10: an illustration of a 1913 march supporting women’s suffrage along with portraits of five leaders – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Alice Paul. On the back of the $5: still the Lincoln Memorial, but now as the background of African American singer Marian Anderson’s 1939 performance (she performed there after being prevented from singing at a segregated venue nearby) along with images of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Reverand Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The importance of this change in our money cannot be denied. The United States has such a complex, rich history, and that should be displayed and celebrated on our currency, which has always stood as a type of historical tribute with the faces of some of our greatest leaders and images of important locations. That history includes women, and it is about time they are finally also included on our money. The men currently on our paper money lived hundreds of years ago; it is simply time to update money to reflect new history and new occurrences in the country.

Beyond finally including women, these new bills will finally showcase some of the incredible diversity that in many ways defines this country. The multiple African American figures featured on the new bills show a deep respect for their contributions to our country in addition to acknowledging that they are important parts of this country.

The final designs for the new bills will be revealed in 2020 and will not go into circulation until some years later, but this is still a step in the right direction. Women and African Americans will be featured on our currency, which will finally reflect more aspects of the United States. In the meantime, we can enjoy the many PhotoShopped images of Tubman on the $20 that have popped up all over the internet – while listening to the Hamilton soundtrack, of course.