NORMAL — About 10 times a year, Kathryn Harris gets to live a truly extraordinary life. The life of civil rights icon Harriet Tubman, that is. Harris, library services director for the Abraham Lincoln ...

Harriet Tubman’s story is still important because she was a woman of humble means who was able to achieve great things, Adwoa Bandele-Asante said. “I think it's an honor to keep her legacy alive,” she ...

History was brought to life in Hughesville last weekend. The Friends of Maxwell Hall, a group dedicated to preserving and bringing to light the history of the hall, put on a performance Feb. 15 to ...

MDOT HAS FOUND A WAY TO SHARE WHAT THEY’VE LEARNED FROM ARTIFACTS PERTAINING TO HARRIET TUBMAN WITH THE WORLD. THIS IS A COLLECTION FROM BEN ROSS’S HOME PLACE. DOCTOR JULIE CZAPLICKI IS MDOT’S CHIEF ...

Harriet Tubman, a Marylander known for freeing slaves, was also a veteran. Disguised as a farm hand or an old woman, she scouted southern plantations to create a spy ring that gathered intel for the ...

In celebration of African American History Month, Desert Dance Theatre presents “Sister Moses,” a beautiful story of a courageous woman’s determination to free her people from slavery through the ...

The Harriet Tubman experience in Auburn has expanded. Thompson Memorial AME Zion Church, which Tubman attended in the later years of her life, has been added to the National Park System. It’s where ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) – Harriet Tubman was a ...

The new Netflix biopic Harriet details the story of Harriet Tubman, a Black woman who escaped from slavery and then devoted her life to helping others find freedom on the Underground Railroad in the ...

Rita Daniels, the great, great, great grandniece of Harriet Tubman and co-author of "Harriet Tubman: Military Scout & Tenacious Visionary," said that people of all ages are thrilled to learn more ...

Most Americans know Harriet Tubman as the fearless conductor of the Underground Railroad—but few know she led the largest liberation of enslaved people in U.S. military history. A new exhibition at ...