Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all ... She promptly pulled out a book and feigned reading it. The ploy was enough to fool the men. Tubman had made the perilous trip to slave ...

The 50th awards ceremony will be held on March 20 and will recognize winners in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, criticism, translation and more ...

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831) are towering figures in American history. Two stellar books published ...

As a conductor on the Underground Railroad it is estimated that Tubman freed around 70 enslaved people. Harriet Tubman (far left), with a group of former slaves whose escape she assisted Tubman ...

Her story has inspired public memorials and books, a documentary, and a feature-length film. Perhaps most fittingly, the U.S. Treasury is redesigning the $20 bill to put her portrait on the front, for ...

In the early hours of June 2, 1863, Union army gunboats idled along the banks of South Carolina’s Combahee River, waiting to ...

Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1822. As an adult, she escaped to the North when she learned she was to be sold after the death of her enslaver.

Harriet Tubman was a spy and a nurse for the Union during the US Civil War The Biden administration has said it will seek to push forward a plan to make anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman the ...

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 and risked her life to help bring many more enslaved Americans to freedom via the Underground Railroad; this park a testament to her remarkable ...