A new “interview with Harriet Tubman” published in The Washington Post is drumming up controversy. On July 16, the Washington Post published a piece by the writer Gillian Brokell based on an interview ...

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, ...

Harvard historian Tiya Miles on how some of American history’s most remarkable young women forged their truest selves beyond the confines of home. A few years before the Civil War, Harriet Tubman told ...

(CNN) -- A monument honoring famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman was unveiled in Newark, New Jersey, this week, replacing a statue of Christopher Columbus removed in 2020 amid social injustice protests, ...

She was the first great Black civil rights activist,” Pauline Copes Johnson said about her great-great-great grandaunt ...

The National Park Service on Monday returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad, following backlash after her presence on the page was dramatically ...

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