Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black artist Alvin Pettit's winning sculpture of Harriet Tubman (above), titled "A Higher Power: The Call of a Freedom Fighter," ...

Chicago Public Schools leaders and elected officials gathered seven months ago to celebrate the renaming of a Lakeview elementary school to honor the abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The change was ...

Few folks have traveled with more purpose than legendary Underground Railroad conductor, abolitionist, suffragist, and human rights activist Harriet Tubman. You may have learned in school that Tubman ...

Harriet Tubman (1822-1913) and Nat Turner (1800-1831) are towering figures in American history. Two stellar books published this year not only do full justice to their legacies, but also illustrate ...

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, ...