Since 1990, the U.S. celebrates Harriet Tubman's achievements on March 10 — Harriet Tubman Day. Here's a timeline of her remarkable life. From when the first ship carried Africans to the shores of ...

“The Journey to Freedom,” photographed on April 23, 2025, memorializes the legacy of Harriet Tubman, who famously led dozens of slaves to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. Li Khan ...

Tiya Miles’s Night Flyer is a landmark biography of one of 19th-century America’s most important figures. Harriet Tubman in 1868 or 1869. Every American seems to know the name and even story of ...

Harriet Tubman will be the face of the redesigned note. President Joe Biden's administration said last week that not only are they pursuing that goal, but they hope to accelerate its release. It's a ...

The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historic Park is the “must go” trip to add to your travel agenda. The Tubman site originally opened in March 2017, in Church Creek, Md. through a ...

On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats. They sailed in stealth up the Coosaw River until ...

Stephen Towns, "Wade in the Water" (2020), natural and synthetic fabric, polyester and cotton thread, crystal glass beads (photo courtesy the Gibbes Museum of Art; all other photos Megan ...

Rita Daniels didn't always know she was the great-great-great-grandniece of Harriet Tubman. In fact, a 9-year-old Daniels had no idea they were related when her teacher assigned her a book report on ...

Rita Daniels learned at 9 that she is the great-great-great-grandniece of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who led countless enslaved Africans to freedom through the Underground Railroad. It was a ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. In the spring of last year, I traveled down to Green Pond, S.C., where I grew up, to ...