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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
On Veterans Day, Maryland honored Harriet Tubman in an extraordinary way: posthumously commissioning her as a brigadier general in the Maryland National Guard. The ceremony, held at the Harriet Tubman ...
Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white ...
(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 ...