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Harriet Tubman
June 3, 2025
Tori Otten
Hegseth Marks Pride With Plan to Rename Ship Named for Harvey Milk
The names of USNS Harvey Milk and other ships honoring prominent civil rights leaders are on the chopping block.
April 7, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s Anti-DEI Purge Hits Harriet Tubman and Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman is now DEI, apparently.
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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