The former slave known for leading more than 300 people—including her elderly parents—to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad was also a Union spy. Born in Maryland around 1820, Tubman ...

Home at 337 E. Hamburg Street in Baltimore is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It includes a late eighteenth-century flounder house. The Federal Hill home was the former Civil War ...

Civil War "spy chiefs" -- Intelligence courier systems -- Secret organizations: Northern sympathizers in the South ; Southern sympathizers in the north -- Technology assist in Civil War spying -- ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- One of the most important African American leaders of the late 1800s was born in North Carolina, but his accomplishments and influence vanished from history for 100 years. Abraham ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Two centuries after it was built, the log cabin of a Civil War spy is being brought back to life in Taylorsville, Kentucky. State Sen. Jimmy Higdon, R-Lebanon, joined ...

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name. What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white ...