Tag: harriet tubman
Harriet Tubman Statue Binghamton NY
Harriet Tubman has long been a hero to Upstate New Yorkers. She lived for more than half of her life in Auburn, New York in…
Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth Considering Taking Harriet Tubman’s Name Off Ship
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Navy to consider removing the name of Underground Railroad conductor and Abolitionist Harriet Tubman’s name from a Naval…
Tom Watson Brown Award for Best Civil War Book Goes to “COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War”
The Society of Civil War Historians announced that Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black is the recipient of the 2025 Tom Watson Brown Book Award. Dr. Fields-Black…
Two Civil War Books Win Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and History
On May 5 the announcement came of Pulitzer Prizes. Two books largely dealing with the Civil War, won awards. The winner for Fiction was James…
Outcry Against National Park for Altering the History of the Underground Railroad Succeeds!
The outcry against the National Park Service over its altering of the history of the Underground Railroad on its website has succeeded, at least for…
National Park Service Rewrites History of Underground Railroad (and it ain’t good)
The new administration has made a lot of changes in how the National Park Service (NPS), the military, and other agencies present American history. Today’s…
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black for COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War,
This month the 2025 Lincoln Prize from the Gilder Lehrman Institute was awarded to Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River…
Harriet Tubman Posthumously Promoted to Brigadier General by Maryland National Guard
Harriet Tubman has long been known as an Abolitionist, but in the 21st Century her role in fighting in the Civil War has attracted unprecedented…
Harriet Tubman & Thomas Garrett Statue in Wilmington, Delaware
For the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the citizens of Wilmington, Delaware erected a new statue in the revived Riverfront Park along the Christina River…
Civil War Talk Radio Interviews Edda L. Fields-Black Author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
Host Gerald Prokopowicz of Civil War Talk Podcast interviews Edda L. Fields-Black, author of COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during…