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On the night of June 1, 1863, Harriet Tubman and the soldiers of the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers sailed up the Combahee River. By the time they returned, they had liberated more than 750 people on what became known as the Combahee River Raid.

This lesson plan accompanies episode 5 of the Magic Sash podcast. This lesson looks at the underground railroad and black suffrage in relation to the women's suffrage movement.

Disability History: An Overview brings attention to some of the many disability stories interwoven across the National Park Service’s 400+ units and its programs. “Disability stories” refer to the array of experiences by, from, and about people with disabilities represented across our nation. People with disabilities are the largest minority in the United States, but their stories often remain untold.

Women’s history is found in more than 400 national parks across the country and still being made today. National parks come in many different shapes, sizes, naming designations, and reasons for being created. Explore national parks that were created and named in honor of specific women and take a closer look at these women’s lasting legacy on American history.

Meet Nina Pulley, a Greening Youth Foundation intern currently working on park planning with the Pacific West Regional Office.

As part of the restoration of the Thompson Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, paint analysis and plaster preservation are crucial to bringing the structure back to its original appearance, as Harriet Tubman would have known it at the end of her life.

Summary for the Historic Thompson Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and parsonage project.

Learn how historians determined Harriet Tubman's birth month as March, 1822. Photo Courtesy of Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

As we celebrate Juneteenth, it is equally important to recognize the role that the enslaved had in their own emancipation. The National Park Service has the honor of protecting sacred places and histories for the American people, many of which explore enslavement, emancipation, and the fight for equality that are integral to the American experience.

When was the last time you voted? For the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution enfranchising women, park rangers at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument created these one-minute videos that highlight suffrage subjects and the heroes who made woman suffrage a reality—including those women who continued the fight for full enfranchisement beyond 1920.