Harriet Tubman, was an abolitionist and slave who worked relentlessly to free enslaved African Americans. Tubman was born ...

click image for close-up Harriet Tubman's days as a conductor for the Underground Railroad had long past when this photograph was taken, believed to be sometime around 1880.

National Museum of African American History and Culture Albumen print of Harriet Tubman National Museum of African American History and Culture Carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Tubman National ...

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 ...

In 2000, three years after the Maryland State Highway Administration renamed a stretch of Route 50 for Harriet Tubman, an artist painted her portrait there; in 2008, vandals spray-painted over it.

The last time a portrait on a bill was changed was in 1929, when Alexander Hamilton was placed on the front of the $10 bill, replacing Jackson. Jackson was elevated to the $20 bill in 1928 ...

Perhaps most fittingly, the U.S. Treasury is redesigning the $20 bill to put her portrait on the front, for release in 2030. Why does Harriet Tubman matter so much? Because she represents ideals that ...

Listen to a short summary Read by Guy R. Your browser does not support the audio element.The Banneker-Douglass Museum in ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.