Fun fact: Harriet Tubman's military service In 2024, the Maryland National Guard recognized Tubman as a one-star brigadier general to honor her contributions to the Union Army.

"People want to be proud of the ship they're sailing in," Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in announcing the ship named ...

The ruins of a slave cabin still remain in South Carolina where Harriet Tubman led a raid of Union troops during the Civil War that freed 700 enslaved people.© Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via ...

Under Hegseth's guidance, the Navy is reviewing the names of several other ships named after women, Black and Hispanic people. Other Navy vessels under review include those named after Thurgood ...

Other Navy vessels under review include those named after Thurgood Marshall, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Harriet Tubman, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Lucy Stone and Medgar Evers.

USNS Harvey Milk renamed amid Trump administration efforts to cut DEI The USNS Harvey Milk departs the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard after a christening ceremony in San Diego, on Nov. 6, 2021. The ...

Hegseth Wants to Rename 8 Naval Ships. Here Are the Stories Behind Their Namesakes During the Civil War, former slave Harriet Tubman served with the Union Army as a spy, scout and nurse.