Here is WRDE: Governor Larry Hogan today officially proclaimed 2022 as “The Year of Harriet Tubman” in Maryland as the state celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of the nation’s most renowned freedom fighter. The governor announced the designation at the...
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Thoughts on Trump’s Proposed “National Garden of American Heroes”
At his July 3, 2020 speech at Mount Rushmore, Donald Trump said: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alEE-5Pk5DQ&w=560&h=315] More here. And here is the text of the executive order: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws...
The Faith of Harriet Tubman
Colorado State University history professor Robert Gudmestad reflects on the Christian faith of Harriet Tubman. Here is a taste of his piece at “The Conversation”: A horrific accident is believed to have brought Tubman closer to God and reinforced her...
Five Acts of Kindness in History that Give Me Hope
Hope seems like it is hard to come by these days. But these five events, chronicled by the BBC, give us a little glimpse of what the coming Kingdom of God–a Christian’s ultimate hope–might look like. A letter saves...
The African American Women of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman, the subject of a movie now showing throughout the country, was just one of many African American women who labored on the Underground Railroad. Over at Process, historian Jazma Sutton explains: This November, Focus Features will release the anticipated movie Harriet in...
Portrait of Andrew Jackson Goes Up in the White House
Barack Obama’s Treasury Department took Andrew Jackson off the twenty dollar bill and replaced him with Harriett Tubman. Â Today Donald Trump hung Andrew Jackson’s portrait in the White House. Here is a taste of a piece at The Hill: President...
A Tubman Biographer on the Historiographical Rise of Tubman
Over at History News Network, historian Catherine Clinton, author of Harriett Tubman: The Road to Freedom, talks about her multi-decade career as a historian of abolitionism, women’s history, and African-American history. Here is a taste of her piece, “The Long Journey...
It's Official: Harriet Tubman Will Replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 Bill
And Alexander Hamilton will stay on the $10 bill. Here is a taste of an article from The New York Times: The Treasury Department will announce on Wednesday afternoon that Harriet Tubman, an African-American who ferried thousands of slaves to freedom,...