There is an exciting new addition on display at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, ...

Edda L. Fields-Black is the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, and the author of “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the ...

Tubman was a nurse, ... “Harriet Tubman” by Harlem Renaissance painter Aaron Douglas depicts her breaking the shackles of bondage and features figures that represent enslavement and freedom.

During the Civil War Harriet Tubman worked for the Union as a cook, a nurse, and even a spy. After the war she settled in Auburn, New York, where she would spend the rest of her long life. She ...

This Veterans Day, the Maryland National Guard and Governor Wes Moore posthumously commissioned Harriet Tubman as a one-star general in the Maryland Army National Guard. ... A nurse. An advocate.

During the Civil War, Tubman served as a nurse and cook for soldiers and African Americans who were recently freed from slavery. After the war, she was awarded a Civil War pension for her service.

Harriet Tubman, the first woman to ... She then channeled those experiences as a scout, spy and nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War, helping guide 150 Black soldiers on a gunboat raid in ...

Harriet Tubman has been posthumously recognized as a one-star brigadier general in Maryland’s National Guard. At a ceremony on Veterans Day, officials in the abolitionist’s home state honored ...

Harriet Tubman statue (Photo by Christal Jordan for rolling out) National Nurses Week arrives each year from May 6 to May 12, creating space to honor the invaluable contributions nurses make to ...

CHURCH CREEK, Md. — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.

Abolitionist and Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman, the first woman in the U.S. to lead an armed military operation during a war, was posthumously commissioned as a one-star general in ...