Harriet Tubman, as Bob the Drag Queen notes, has become a national icon. Her exploits in liberating her fellow slaves, her extraordinary effectiveness as an intelligence agent for the Union army, and ...

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 ...

She’s known as a savior of the enslaved – but few know that during the American Civil War, Harriet Tubman was an exceptionally capable Union Army spy. Untold is a free collection of short, compelling, ...

Harriet Tubman will be the first black woman to have her face featured on American currency, a recognition befitting of her important contributions to American history. According to Google, though, ...

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, ...