| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History. By Milton C. Sernett. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. xii, 409 pp. Cloth, $89.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4052-2. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8223-4073-7.)

At the beginning of this study of our "collective memory" of Harriet Tubman, Milton C. Sernett, a longtime professor of African American studies, history, and religion at Syracuse University, cites a 1986 study that found more eleventh-grade students recognized her than Winston Churchill and interviews with "scholars, politicians and theologians" for a 1999 series on the Arts and Entertainment television network that ranked Tubman as the seventy-first most important person of the last one thousand years, ahead of, among others, Joseph Stalin and Elizabeth I (p. 1).

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