Harriet Tubman

Catch these Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass Docs While You Can

by Walter G. Moss

Readers have a short time to watch two informative documentaries on American freedom fighters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. 

Philly Plan for Tubman Memorial Draws Fire: Were Black Artists Excluded?

The city awarded a commission for a permanent statue to Wesley Wofford, who designed a traveling memorial that had graced City Hall. Local artists, many Black, argued that the call wasn't fair and open. 

Maryland Governor Proclaims Year of Harriet Tubman

Governor Larry Hogan observed the 200th anniversary of the birth of the famed freedom fighter and encouraged visitors to state and federal sites in the state that preserve the history of slavery and the Underground Railroad. 

Harriet Tubman's Lost Maryland Home Found, Say Archaeologists

State archaeologists discovered remains of a cabin that evidence suggests belonged to Ben Ross, and where the woman who would be known as Harriet Tubman lived for a period of time as a child. 

Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill May Take Years. Here's Why

The need to implement new anticounterfeit measures is a principal source of delay for the goal of putting Harriet Tubman's portrait on the $20 bill. 

A Harriet Tubman $20? That’s Just the Beginning

by Ellen Feingold

The last hundred years have featured a stable roster of elite portraits on American banknotes. The longer history of paper currency, however, is more flexible and diverse, and should encourage creativity in using money to tell the nation's stories. 

University Of Maryland Renames Women's Studies Department After Harriet Tubman

The University of Maryland made the change to honr the hero of emancipation and reflect its commitment to teaching and scholarship about Black women's history.

‘Woefully Uninformed’: Kanye West Slammed for Saying Harriet Tubman ‘Never Actually Freed the Slaves’

“Kanye West is in desperate need of a crash course in American History,” said historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar.

Harriet Tubman Highway approved in Miami-Dade, replacing ‘Dixie’ over Civil War legacy

Miami-Dade commissioners unanimously approved renaming the county’s “Dixie” highways after Harriet Tubman.

Harriet Tubman and a National Legacy of Midnight Skies and Silent Stars

by Todd Lookingbill

The Oscar buzz around the film and the popularity of the biopic with critics and general audiences alike creates an opportunity to discuss and shine a light on the important landscape associated with this amazing historical figure. 

Faith made Harriet Tubman fearless as she rescued slaves

by Robert Gudmestad

Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually as an abolitionist. What I find most fascinating, as a historian of American slavery, is how belief in God helped Tubman remain fearless, even when she came face to face with many challenges.

Historians Manisha Sinha, Kate Clifford Larson, and Milton Sernett Interviewed for Article on Historical Accuracy of Harriet Film

"What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet"

Harriet Appropriately and Aptly Honors Harriet Tubman

by Bruce Chadwick

Harriet is not only an enjoyable and inspirational film, but one that covers a lot of pre and post-Civil War history as well as some about the war itself.

Historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar interviewed by The Guardian about her new biography of Harriet Tubman

by Amanda Holpuch

Author Erica Armstrong Dunbar explains how the abolitionist may be one of the best-known women in US history – but years of her life are usually ‘erased’

6 Strategies Harriet Tubman and Others Used to Escape Along the Underground Railroad

From elaborate disguises to communicating in code to fighting back, enslaved people found multiple paths to freedom.

African American Women's Work in the Underground Railroad Beyond Harriet Tubman

by Jazma Sutton

African American women, arguably the most vulnerable group in antebellum America, used every means at their disposal to escape slavery, liberate family members, assist in others’ self-liberation, and hold on to whatever measure of freedom they had achieved. 

Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right

The filmmakers pored over books, documents and other research to remind viewers of the woman behind the often distorted legend.

Whether she’s on the $20 bill or not, Harriet Tubman made men pay for underestimating her

She escaped slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, then led hundreds of other people to freedom.

Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Delayed Until Trump Leaves Office, Mnuchin Says

As a presidential candidate in 2016, Mr. Trump criticized the Obama administration’s plans for the bill.

Trump administration's spurning of Harriet Tubman opens a new front in the monument wars

For better or worse, there is no more important monument in any country than its money.