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Harriet Tubman
February 23, 2024
Eric Herschthal
Harriet Tubman and the Most Important, Understudied Battle of the Civil War
Edda L. Fields-Black sets out to restore the Combahee River Raid to its proper place in Tubman’s life and in the war on slavery.
September 17, 2019
Eric Herschthal
How Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Novel Reckons With the Past
“The Water Dancer” comes out of a powerful examination of the legacies of slavery today.
June 22, 2016
Jeet Heer
Steve King’s take on Harriet Tubman is a prime example of conservative anti-anti-racism.
April 21, 2016
Alex Shephard
Trump: Put Harriet Tubman on the $2 bill.
April 20, 2016
Alex Shephard
Harriet Tubman and Andrew Jackson are actually going to share the $20 bill, which is bad.
April 20, 2016
Elspeth Reeve
Bill de Blasio tweeted a fake-as-hell Hallmark-esque Harriet Tubman quote.
April 20, 2016
Clio Chang
6 reasons Harriet Tubman deserves to be on the $20 bill.
April 20, 2016
Maggie Foucault
Andrew Jackson is getting kicked off the $20 bill. And Harriet Tubman is on.

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