On the moonlit night of June 2, 1863, Harriet Tubman and 300 Union soldiers, many of them Black, departed Beaufort, South Carolina, on three gunboats. They sailed in stealth up the Coosaw River until ...

Most Americans know Harriet Tubman as the fearless conductor of the Underground Railroad—but few know she led the largest liberation of enslaved people in U.S. military history. A new exhibition ...

The U.S. Navy may rename ships named for prominent civil rights and other American leaders like Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Harriet Tubman, according to a report from CBS News.