In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 ...

O ver a century ago, President Woodrow Wilson established Veterans Day to honor “the heroism of those who died in the country’s service” after the First World War. Wilson proclaimed that the day, ...

Brave black Civil War soldier Sandy Wills was recently given a heartfelt military burial — after his ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned as brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran’s Day ceremony.

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

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

I still believe Jefferson and Washington, though flawed, were highly evolved for their time. I also believe that if every ...

Curious about her family's history, journalist Cheryl Wills began researching her ancestry, and found she was related to ...

She led a Union Army raid during the Civil War according to U.S. Army historians. The raid freed more than 750 enslaved ...

“It’s such a touchy subject, I think people shy away from it.” Social studies curricula in Texas public schools only began ...

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