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 ...

History is literally repeating itself thanks to famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman of Maryland. Thirty years ago this month, ...

DORCHESTER CO., Md. - One of the most well-known figures of the Underground Railroad has deep roots right here on the Eastern Shore. Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross in Dorchester County in 1822, ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced Wednesday that the revised $20 bill will feature the portrait of the legendary abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Tubman was born a slave, escaped to freedom and ...

A roughly 14-foot-tall bronze statue of the United States’ most famous abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, will become a permanent fixture outside Philadelphia’s City Hall later this year. It will be the ...

CAMBRIDGE, Md. - On the 176th anniversary of her first attempt to escape slavery, Harriet Tubman’s descendants joined state and local leaders Wednesday afternoon to unveil a new historical marker ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — As the New Haven Museum celebrates the Connecticut Freedom Trail throughout September, University of Connecticut professor Deirdre Cooper Owens discusses her studies of ...

Few figures in American history have the legacy of Harriet Tubman. Her life has come to represent courage, faith, and an unwavering commitment to freedom. Born into slavery in the early nineteenth ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Mary Elliott, curator of slavery at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, answers the question, “What can this shawl tell ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nilgun Anadolu-Okur, Temple University and Jeremy Mennis, Temple University (THE ...