DORCHESTER COUNTY, MD -- Weather played a significant role in the success of Harriet Tubman's missions to free enslaved people via the Underground Railroad. The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad ...
Most Americans know Harriet Tubman as the fearless conductor of the Underground Railroad—but few know she led the largest liberation of enslaved people in U.S. military history. A new exhibition at ...
Rooks is the chair of and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, where she's also the founding director of the Segrenomics Lab. Her interdisciplinary work, reflected in four books and ...
The Maryland National Guard made history on Nov. 11 — aka Veterans Day — by posthumously promoting Harriet Tubman to brigadier general, finally recognizing the military genius who outmaneuvered ...
In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations along the Combahee River, near Beaufort, South Carolina. Dr. Edda Fields-Black, ...
February is Black History month. Since1976, National Black History month has been formally acknowledged by the residing Presidents including President Trump on January 31, 2025 as a month for national ...