Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A portrait of Harriet Tubman in 1878. Library of Congress/Getty Images Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a ...

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, ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman became an abolitionist, humanitarian and leader of the Underground Railroad, ...

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Harriet Tubman photographed in 1877, 14 years after the Combahee River Raid. Carnegie Mellon University history professor Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize in history this week for her ...

Considering she will soon adorn America’s $20 bill, Harriet Tubman hardly lacks in national significance. But even the nation’s most celebrated historic figures can remain elusive and unknown. A new ...

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 ...

COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War. By Edda L. Fields-Black. Oxford University Press. 776 pages. $39.99. In an important 1982 essay, Cornell ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by ...