Gov. Kathy Hochul wants Harriet Tubman to be one of New York's representatives in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.

Maryland is the birthplace of Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass ... Douglass emerged as a powerful and persuasive spokesman for the cause of abolition. Maryland is home to the Smithsonian ...

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners ... of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge in Dorchester County, Maryland, where Tubman spent much of her early life, as well as the home site of ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well ... in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger." Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820. At age five or six ...

Here, Tubman suffered a traumatic injury. An enslaved man had left home without permission ... In 2000, three years after the Maryland State Highway Administration renamed a stretch of Route 50 for ...

Wes Moore honored Harriet Tubman’s legacy by posthumously ... And on Veterans' Day earlier this week, the governor of her home state of Maryland gave her a posthumous ranking in the state ...

Harriet Tubman was an abolitionist who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1822 ... Tubman purchased her home from U.S. Sen. William H. Seward in 1859. It would later have to be rebuilt in ...

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 R. Tubman Elementary is a public school located in Gaithersburg, MD, which is in a small city setting. The student population of Harriet R. Tubman Elementary is 440 and the school serves ...

An escaped slave who became one of the best-known "conductors" on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman led over 300 slaves to freedom in the decade before the war. The Maryland native began ...