Harriet Tubman, a Marylander known for freeing slaves, was also a veteran. Disguised as a farm hand or an old woman, she ...

Harriet Tubman, as Bob the Drag Queen notes, has become a national icon. Her exploits in liberating her fellow slaves, her extraordinary effectiveness as an intelligence agent for the Union army, and ...

The Underground Railroad icon was downplayed on a website amid dozens of edits to the National Park Service’s online descriptions of Black history. A portrait and quote of Harriet Tubman, the heroic ...

I remember a raucous discussion among several guys in my eighth grade history class about a woman we were reading about named Harriet Tubman. All of us spoke “point blank” that we could never have ...

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, ...

A Treasury inspector general investigation into the delay was announced Monday. House Democrats on Thursday protested on the steps of the Treasury Department, rallying for a congressional measure that ...

Statues of slave-owning Founding Fathers have represented New York in the U.S. Capitol for nearly 150 years. Now, state lawmakers want to replace one of the statues with a famous New Yorker who helped ...

The Maryland National Guard and Gov. Wes Moore officially recognized Harriet Tubman for her military service to both the U.S. and Maryland.