Harriet Tubman

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2/15/2021
  

  A Harriet Tubman $20? That’s Just the Beginning

  by Ellen Feingold

  The last hundred years have featured a stable roster of elite portraits on American banknotes. The longer history of paper currency, however, is more flexible and diverse, and should encourage creativity in using money to tell the nation's stories. 

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• SOURCE: Fox News
  9/6/2020
  

  University Of Maryland Renames Women's Studies Department After Harriet Tubman

  The University of Maryland made the change to honr the hero of emancipation and reflect its commitment to teaching and scholarship about Black women's history.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/20/2020
  

  ‘Woefully Uninformed’: Kanye West Slammed for Saying Harriet Tubman ‘Never Actually Freed the Slaves’

  “Kanye West is in desperate need of a crash course in American History,” said historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar.

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• SOURCE: Miami Herald
  2/19/20
  

  Harriet Tubman Highway approved in Miami-Dade, replacing ‘Dixie’ over Civil War legacy

  Miami-Dade commissioners unanimously approved renaming the county’s “Dixie” highways after Harriet Tubman.

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• 2/6/20
  

  Harriet Tubman and a National Legacy of Midnight Skies and Silent Stars

  by Todd Lookingbill

  The Oscar buzz around the film and the popularity of the biopic with critics and general audiences alike creates an opportunity to discuss and shine a light on the important landscape associated with this amazing historical figure. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12/3/2019
  

  Faith made Harriet Tubman fearless as she rescued slaves

  by Robert Gudmestad

  Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually as an abolitionist. What I find most fascinating, as a historian of American slavery, is how belief in God helped Tubman remain fearless, even when she came face to face with many challenges.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  10/31/19
  

  Historians Manisha Sinha, Kate Clifford Larson, and Milton Sernett Interviewed for Article on Historical Accuracy of Harriet Film

  "What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in Harriet"

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• 11/5/19
  

  Harriet Appropriately and Aptly Honors Harriet Tubman

  by Bruce Chadwick

  Harriet is not only an enjoyable and inspirational film, but one that covers a lot of pre and post-Civil War history as well as some about the war itself.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  November 3, 2019
  

  Historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar interviewed by The Guardian about her new biography of Harriet Tubman

  by Amanda Holpuch

  Author Erica Armstrong Dunbar explains how the abolitionist may be one of the best-known women in US history – but years of her life are usually ‘erased’

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• SOURCE: History.com
  10/30/19
  

  6 Strategies Harriet Tubman and Others Used to Escape Along the Underground Railroad

  From elaborate disguises to communicating in code to fighting back, enslaved people found multiple paths to freedom.

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• SOURCE: Process History
  10/31/19
  

  African American Women's Work in the Underground Railroad Beyond Harriet Tubman

  by Jazma Sutton

  African American women, arguably the most vulnerable group in antebellum America, used every means at their disposal to escape slavery, liberate family members, assist in others’ self-liberation, and hold on to whatever measure of freedom they had achieved. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/23/19
  

  Harriet Tubman Facts and Myths: How the Movie Tried to Get it Right

  The filmmakers pored over books, documents and other research to remind viewers of the woman behind the often distorted legend.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/19
  

  Whether she’s on the $20 bill or not, Harriet Tubman made men pay for underestimating her

  She escaped slavery on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, then led hundreds of other people to freedom.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/22/19
  

  Harriet Tubman $20 Bill Is Delayed Until Trump Leaves Office, Mnuchin Says

  As a presidential candidate in 2016, Mr. Trump criticized the Obama administration’s plans for the bill.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/23/19
  

  Trump administration's spurning of Harriet Tubman opens a new front in the monument wars

  For better or worse, there is no more important monument in any country than its money. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/26/19
  

  A Previously Unknown Portrait of a Young Harriet Tubman Goes on View at NMAAHC

  “I was stunned,” says director Lonnie Bunch; historic Emily Howland photo album contains dozens of other abolitionists and leaders who took an active role.

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• SOURCE: Press Release
  8-8-18
  

  Historians Urge Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to Confirm Harriet Tubman on the New 20-Dollar Bill for Upcoming Anniversary of Women's Suffrage

  127 professional American historians have signed an open letter to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin urging that he commit to plans previously announced to replace President Andrew Jackson.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  6-5-18
  

  Harriet Tubman on the $20? Trump’s Treasury Department Won’t Commit.

  In a letter released on Tuesday, the Treasury Department praised Harriet Tubman, a former slave and abolitionist, but made no commitment on whether she would one day be the face of the $20 bill.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  5-4-18
  

  Kanye West’s Harriet Tubman tweets show how little we know about her history

  by Kate Clifford Larson

  I’m a Harriet Tubman historian. There’s a lot that West got wrong.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  4-19-18
  

  What Happened to the Plan to Put Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill?

  Two years ago this week, the Treasury secretary announced civil rights and women’s icons would be on America’s money. Where are they?