Harriet Tubman

State says it will replace Tubman marker with a more accurate one.

Eastern Shore where Harriet Tubman lived selected for first sale of USPS commemorative stamp.

We go On the Record with historian Edda Fields-Black. Her book “Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War" tells of a crucial Civil War raid. Under cover of darkness, Harriet Tubman and the Union Army, along with Black enlisted men, liberated 700 enslaved people along the Combee River of South Carolina.

We go On the Record with Harriet Tubman’s great-great-great grand niece, and with the archeologist who unearthed Tubman’s childhood home. We talk about a new film about the discovery and what life was like for enslaved people on the Eastern Shore.

The extraordinary achievements of Harriet Tubman.

We’ll go On the Record with award-winning filmmaker Stanley Nelson to ask what moved him as he researched the lives of the Maryland icons of freedom Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and how he sees their legacies.

We’ll go On the Record with a climate scientist and a tour guide to talk about the threat rising sea levels pose to the Eastern Shore site where Harriet Tubman lived. Plus, discovering the home of Tubman’s father. What artifacts have archaeologists uncovered?

We’ll go On the Record with a climate scientist and a tour guide to talk about the threat rising sea levels pose to the Eastern Shore site where Harriet Tubman lived. Plus, discovering the home of Tubman’s father. What artifacts have archaeologists uncovered?

The MDOT's chief archaeologist describes her team's recent Eastern Shore discovery of the site of anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman's childhood home.

The sun was setting behind a sea of pink and steel gray clouds at the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge on Maryland’s Eastern shore when a few dozen,…