In 1849, Harriet Tubman fled Maryland ... liked their lives.” During the Civil War, Tubman served with the Union Army as a rifle-toting scout and spy. In June 1863, she helped lead a gunboat ...

But Kate Clifford Larson has accomplished both in her brilliant biography of Harriet Tubman ... Larson also recounts Tubman's exploits during the Civil War, when, as an Army scout in Union ...

After a public outcry, the Park Service said the revisions were a mistake and restored most of the deleted material, including Tubman’s photo ... of slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction ...

While Trachtenberg began her career with bit roles on Clarissa Explains It All, Law & Order and All My Children, it was Harriet the Spy that marked her film debut. Based on the book of the same ...

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg who is known for her roles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Gossip Girl,” “The Adventures of Pete & Pete” and more, died from complications of diabetes ...

Michelle Trachtenberg, a former child star who appeared in the 1996 “Harriet the Spy” hit movie and went on to co-star in two buzzy millennial-era TV shows — “Buffy the Vampire Slayer ...

We need them speaking out on civil liberties, on the rights of immigrants and on the rights of universities." While Democrats are increasingly energized to resist Trump, a slew of national polls ...

South Sudan was teetering on the edge of renewed civil war, the top UN official in the world’s youngest nation warned on Monday, lamenting the government’s sudden postponement of the latest ...

CAIRO (AP) — As Sudan marks two years of civil war on Tuesday, atrocities and famine are only mounting in what the U.N. says is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Last month, the Sudanese ...

Johnny Depp is absolutely unrecognizable in a first-look photo that Lionsgate released this week from his upcoming movie Day Drinker, co-starring with Penelope Cruz. Discover what’s new this ...