There are few Americans today who do not know the name Harriet Tubman. Famous for her work on the Underground Railroad, ...

During the 19th century, the ability to spend time in nature helped free some girls from restrictive social norms and turned ...

"We will never be alive long enough for Black people to be free as long as we were enslaved," Bob the Drag Queen tells ...

His debut novel imagines the abolitionist as a modern hip-hop artist, and he’s already writing a stage adaptation with a ...

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Bob the Drag Queen about his new book, "Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert," in which Tubman returns to life and wants to use hip-hop to spread her message.

The heroic conductor on the Underground Railroad was reared on the site in the wilderness of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

These discoveries were years in the making. Smithsonian reports that historians suspected Ross’s home was located in Peter’s Neck, Maryland—however, archaeologists couldn’t access it until the U.S.

The Maryland Department of Transportation launched an interactive virtual museum, showcasing finds from where Ben Ross lived after emancipation ...

Archaeologists in Hanover, Maryland, came across rare artifacts that have ties to American abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The evacuation was led by the Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT ...