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BALTIMORE—A radiant new tribute to Harriet Tubman has transformed the Harriet Tubman Freedom Center in Cambridge, Maryland—just miles from where she once made her daring escapes to freedom—located at ...
What do Julia Child, Paul Revere, and Harriet Tubman all have in common? Each played a crucial role in the clandestine world of espionage and intelligence. Though we might know them for their ...
Three gunboats slipped up the dark Combahee River on June 2, 1863. Commanding one of them was Harriet Tubman. During that ...
Today for Women's History Month, we are honoring Harriet Baker. She was an evangelist and one of the first African Americans to serve as a preacher.
The award-winning author of a book about the Combahee River Raid is visiting Auburn during the Harriet Tubman Pilgrimage.
Harriet Jane Baker, 79, of East Stroudsburg, died Monday, April 14, 2025, at home. Born on January 31, 1946 in East Stroudsburg, she was a daughter of the late Herman A. and Sophie (Motola) Baker ...
After Harriet was announced as the 2025 winner on March 18, Johanna Thomas-Corr, the chair of the Young Writer of the Year Award judging body, said: “Harriet Baker’s Rural Hours has made me excited ...
Bristol-based Harriet Baker has written for the London Review of Books, Paris Review, New Statesman, TLS, Apollo and frieze.
A Clifton-based author has won the prestigious Sunday Times Charlotte Aitken Young Writer of the Year Award. In a ceremony on Tuesday, Harriet Baker was announced as the winner amongst stiff ...
A Bristol-based debut author has been named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Harriet Baker was honoured with the prestigious prize for Rural Hours - hailed as "sparkling" and a "glorious ...