click image for close-up Harriet Tubman's days as a conductor for the Underground Railroad had long past when this photograph was taken, believed to be sometime around 1880.

The last time a portrait on a bill was changed was in 1929, when Alexander Hamilton was placed on the front of the $10 bill, replacing Jackson. Jackson was elevated to the $20 bill in 1928 ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful ...

National Museum of African American History and Culture Albumen print of Harriet Tubman National Museum of African American History and Culture Carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Tubman National ...

In 2000, three years after the Maryland State Highway Administration renamed a stretch of Route 50 for Harriet Tubman, an artist painted her portrait there; in 2008, vandals spray-painted over it.

Harriet Tubman, was an abolitionist and slave who worked relentlessly to free enslaved African Americans. Tubman was born ...

Perhaps most fittingly, the U.S. Treasury is redesigning the $20 bill to put her portrait on the front, for release in 2030. Why does Harriet Tubman matter so much? Because she represents ideals that ...

Kate Clifford Larson is a bestselling author of critically acclaimed biographies including “Bound for the Promised Land: ...

A Black gay couple is cultivating land Harriet Tubman used to help liberate Black people for a new digital series during ...

Described as a “Fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop,” the novel follows Harriet Tubman as she ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors." During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom.