Michael Rosato's murals tell the story of the Eastern Shore's history and wildlife.

From Baltimore to Rockville, from Frederick County to the Eastern Shore, these historical sites demonstrate the Underground Railroad's importance to the Free State's history.

A Treasury Department review of the stalling process to place Underground Railroad leader Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill should take about 10 months.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is urging the Trump administration to reconsider its decision to delay putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Here's how Maryland can pressure the Trump administration to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 with Harriet Tubman.

Baltimore Rep. Elijah Cummings seeks to ensure that delayed Harriet Tubman $20 bill won't be completely abandoned.

While Harriet Tubman is not yet on American currency, we can take comfort in the fact that several African American men's signatures have been.

Maryland archaeologists are excavating the earth beneath the wooden floorboards inside the Bayly Cabin, located behind one of the oldest homes in Cambridge.

The Treasury Department needs to stop playing games and put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill and if they won't do it Congress needs to intervene.

It’s still not clear whose face will be on the $20 bill in 2020.  Harriet Tubman is one of the possibilities.

Marissa Hayes urged a crowd at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African-American History & Culture on Sunday to reconsider the notion of adversity — not as a difficulty to be endured, but as a challenge to be overcome.

A renowned historical sculptor approached the Taneytown in October, proposing that the city be home to his masterpiece: a National Civil War Memorial. Here are five things you should know about the sculptor, the project and what the city thinks about it.

Plans to renovate and repurpose Howard County’s former all-black high school are seeing renewed vigor with the county delegation’s recent vote to support a $500,000 bond bill for the project — a measure that could result in $1 million overall with a county match.

A movie on abolitionist Harriet Tubman, scheduled to be shown at a museum, is looking for actors.

As we mark the one-year anniversary of the removal of four monuments here in Baltimore, I am left with a nagging question: Are we any closer to solving the dilemma of how we recognize important historical figures, one that is different than the pervasive white male, figurative representations?

Howard County Executive Allan Kittleman signed the executive order to establish the Harriet Tubman School Advisory council in June. The group is currently renovating the cafeteria.

Visit the Eastern Shore town of Cambridge and you’re bound to encounter an unmatched level of history and a complementary level of laid-back entertainment that runs just as deep.

Nearly 1,000 visitors, almost double that of last year's attendance, attended Hosanna School Museum in Darlington's second annual Juneteenth celebration festival on Saturday, June 23.

While practically every sector on the Eastern Shore has something to offer, we’ll get you started with our favorites.

More than 200 local residents and elected leaders gathered in a tree-lined corner of Baltimore on Saturday to rededicate the space, which had long venerated two Confederate generals, to the famed abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman.

Baltimore officials on Saturday will formally rededicate a portion of Wyman Park Dell — where a statue of two Confederate generals stood for decades — in honor of Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman.

MICA faculty member and artist Lauren Adams critiques white supremacy and Confederate monuments while praising black female activists in latest exhibition 'Germinal.'

The Baltimore City Council is expected to grant preliminary approval Monday to legislation that would rename the former site of a Confederate monument for Harriet Tubman.

Bessie Bordenave’s mission is to preserve the memory of Harriet Tubman High School, the county’s last all black school before desegregation. Bordenave, an alumna of the school, is also president of the Harriet Tubman Foundation, which hopes to turn the building into a cultural community center.

Harford County Public Library celebrates Black History Month in February with 10 events at libraries throughout the county.

Active in Baltimore's Polish community, he also championed Anna Ella Carroll and Harriet Tubman

Baltimore artist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Joyce J. Scott creates work honoring Harriet Tubman, including two large outdoor sculptures (one meant to decay), as part of a retrospective at Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey.

About 15 community members gathered in an old church space in Charles Village on Sunday to discuss Baltimore’s removal of three Confederate statues this summer and what should take their spot. 

I find it hard to believe that it has taken 40 or 50 plus years for some politician and liberals to be offended by Civil War statues and pictures of dead presidents on American money.

A pair of lawmakers introduced legislation Friday to require the Treasury Department to replace President Andrew Jackson’s portrait with an image of abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Democrats urged U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to follow through on a plan to feature abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

Ten exhibits in Baltimore you won't want to miss this fall.

Baltimore monuments, Confederate monuments, Abel Wolman, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman

For Mayor Pugh, an action plan for Baltimore's Confederate monuments

As part of its 150th anniversary, Hosanna School Museum held a Juneteenth celebration festival on Saturday, June 17.

A rare photograph of 19th-century abolitionist and Underground Railroad hero Harriet Tubman is up for sale at a

The stories of Harriet Tubman and other freedom seekers, as they are called in the tourism brochures, hold many sobering lessons for those of us trying to make sense of the country we have come to be — a nation led by a president who lies as easily as he tweets. With wild accusations that congressional leaders and even the heads of the FBI and the National Security Agency say are unfounded, he seeks to distract media and anti-Trump activists from following his diabolical plans to destroy

On Monday in Annapolis, descendants of former Supreme Court chief justice Roger B. Taney apologize to a descendant of Dred Scott, initiating what both families hope will be a long-term campaign of racial reconciliation in America.

When Gov. Larry Hogan officially dedicates the state park and visitors center on FridayMarch 10, it will be the most recent in a series of tributes the nation is belatedly paying to the Underground Railroad's most renowned conductor.

Maryland's U.S. senators are sponsoring legislation to bring a statue of Harriet Tubman to the U.S. Capitol

Black History Month celebrated

Fifty years on, longtime residents of Cambridge are still sifting through their emotions about what took place on the night of July 24, 1967. Some remain angry about the conditions that caused the unrest. Some want to leave it in the past. Others say it should be remembered

Leon and Stacia Vaughn of Mount Washington wanted their 5-year-old grandson, Enoch Vaughn, to expand his horizons, so they brought him to the Reginald F. Le

Cynthia Erivo is set to star in an independent Harriet Tubman biopic, tentatively titled "Harriet."

When the Columbia Orchestra performs on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m., in Jim Rouse Theatre, keep your ears open for the different musical influences in ea

It's impossible to fully capture centuries of black history in just 28 days (29 in a leap year), yet every February, people in Baltimore and beyond give it their best shot. This year is no exception. Whether you're looking to laugh or learn, discuss or dance, there's something for everyone this Black History Month. Here are five events and a brief roundup of some of the most celebratory black history events this year.

Benjamin Banneker is among dozens of Marylanders and Baltimoreans represented in a collection of approximately 40,000 artifacts — some 3,000 onsite. Objects of local origin include a stone slave auction block from Hagerstown. A pinback from the Baltimore Elite Giants, a Negro League baseball team. Colorful entertainment placards produced by Baltimore's own Globe Poster Printing Corp.