A task force of lawmakers and historians is recommending that Illinois create a full-time commission to commemorate the ...

For historians of slavery, the origins of the modern world and the origins of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade are one and the ...

An Illinois task force is working to bring greater recognition to the state’s role in the Underground Railroad, identifying ...

One of the awful ironies of this harrowing play about the Sudanese human rights activist Mende Nazer’s experience of modern slavery is that it wouldn’t exist had she not had the courage to try and ...

The measure would have amended the state’s constitution to repeal language that allows involuntary servitude as a form of ...

This Veterans Day, the Maryland National Guard and Governor Wes Moore posthumously commissioned Harriet Tubman as a one-star ...

Origin: Saoirse is of Irish origin. Derivation: The name Saoirse is derived from the Irish word saoirse, meaning “freedom” or ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard on Monday in recognition ...

Harriet Tubman was a spy, a nurse, an abolitionist and, most importantly, a military leader who guided Union soldiers during ...

Dozens gathered on Veterans Day at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Maryland's Dorcester County for a ...