March 9 (Reuters) - Abolitionist Harriet Tubman's struggle to help roughly 70 slaves escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad will be remembered on Saturday at the groundbreaking of a Maryland ...

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 ...

MARYLAND (DC News Now) — Archaeologists with the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT) announced Monday that a new virtual museum will showcase the history and artifacts discovered at Harriet ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

MDOT HAS FOUND A WAY TO SHARE WHAT THEY’VE LEARNED FROM ARTIFACTS PERTAINING TO HARRIET TUBMAN WITH THE WORLD. THIS IS A COLLECTION FROM BEN ROSS’S HOME PLACE. DOCTOR JULIE CZAPLICKI IS MDOT’S CHIEF ...

Harriet Tubman, a revered abolitionist and the first woman to lead an American military action during wartime was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general on Monday. On Veteran’s Day, a ...

Preserving history through art is the theme of "Sacred Spaces," a new exhibit at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum in Annapolis. The art show, which opened in mid-February, celebrates and honors ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – Descendants of Harriet Tubman have gathered at The President’s Gallery by Madame Tussauds and unveiled a wax statue of the woman who led hundreds of slaves to freedom. Tubman’s great ...

When Harriet Tubman was born into slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the name given to her was Araminta Ross. Affectionately, she was called “Minty.” Before escaping north at the age of 27, afraid ...

A new virtual collection of historic artifacts is shedding light on the early life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman and her father, Ben Ross. Archaeologists for the Maryland Department of Transportation ...