In a March 27 executive order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” the president empowered Vice President J.D. Vance to review all the Smithsonian’s properties, programs and ...

Historians and activists say its important to protect sites like the Harriet Tubman visitor center, which tell stories of ...

Pittsburgh author Edda Fields-Black won the Pulitzer Prize this week for “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, ...

CHURCH CREEK, MD ‒ Deanna Mitchell pointed to the bronze bust of Harriet Tubman at the center's entrance and urged visitors to touch the nape of its neck to feel the scars. The bust, she ...

Edda Fields-Black is still processing the fact that she was awarded a 2025 Pulitzer Prize. “It’s just beginning to set in. It ...

with guest host Quinta Brunson playing famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Keenan Thompson also played orator and author Frederick Douglass in the sketch titled "Will & Todd's Radical Experience." ...

The Department of History's Edda Fields-Black has been named a recipient of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for her research on Harriet Tubman.

Edda Fields-Black wanted to make her historical account of a Union Army raid led by Harriet Tubman on southern plantations and rice fields as authentic as ...

Will and Todd share further and try to put some sense into Tubman and Douglass. “Harriet, what about the Underground Railroad?” asked Todd. She replied, “Oh, my cousin Janet can do it.