Harriet Tubman

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• 10/23/2022
  

  Catch these Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass Docs While You Can

  by Walter G. Moss

  Readers have a short time to watch two informative documentaries on American freedom fighters Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  7/4/2022
  

  Philly Plan for Tubman Memorial Draws Fire: Were Black Artists Excluded?

  The city awarded a commission for a permanent statue to Wesley Wofford, who designed a traveling memorial that had graced City Hall. Local artists, many Black, argued that the call wasn't fair and open. 

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• SOURCE: WRDE
  3/13/2022
  

  Maryland Governor Proclaims Year of Harriet Tubman

  Governor Larry Hogan observed the 200th anniversary of the birth of the famed freedom fighter and encouraged visitors to state and federal sites in the state that preserve the history of slavery and the Underground Railroad. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/20/2021
  

  Harriet Tubman's Lost Maryland Home Found, Say Archaeologists

  State archaeologists discovered remains of a cabin that evidence suggests belonged to Ben Ross, and where the woman who would be known as Harriet Tubman lived for a period of time as a child. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/30/2021
  

  Putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 Bill May Take Years. Here's Why

  The need to implement new anticounterfeit measures is a principal source of delay for the goal of putting Harriet Tubman's portrait on the $20 bill. 

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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.