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 ...

Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman became an abolitionist, humanitarian and leader of the Underground Railroad, ...

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 ...

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 ...

And just as curious to me is the fact that these two tough-minded, independent, courageous and deeply intelligent warriors for freedom have been “maternalized,” as the historians Catherine Clinton ...

A new virtual museum is bringing the history of Harriet Tubman’s early years to the world. Launched by the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), the museum showcases artifacts found at the ...

February is Black History month. Since1976, National Black History month has been formally acknowledged by the residing Presidents including President Trump on January 31, 2025 as a month for national ...

In January, Willie Phillips of the Laguna Woods African American Heritage Club bought 104 tickets to the play “The Spirit of Harriet Tubman” and chartered two buses to take residents to the one-night ...

I remember a raucous discussion among several guys in my eighth grade history class about a woman we were reading about named Harriet Tubman. All of us spoke “point blank” that we could never have ...

You can call Bob the Drag Queen a lot of things - performer, musician, comedian and, recently, traitor. BOB THE DRAG QUEEN: (Laughter). RASCOE: Now you can add one more thing to that list, author. Bob ...