The Underground Railroad was not underground, and it wasn’t an actual train. It was a network of people, both whites and free ...
The Midwest Underground Railroad Network, which started as the The Little Calumet River Underground Railroad Project and has grown over the years to encompass the pre-Civil War history of the entire ...
The Underground Railroad, which helped people escape slavery to freedom, necessarily operated in secrecy until the end of the Civil War. Now a grant from the National Park Service will support the ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS) If you were paying attention in history class, you'll recall the Underground Railroad ...
The question of how to engage people about the Underground Railroad in the social media age will be the focus of a panel taking place Friday, which is Juneteenth. This year marks the 161st anniversary ...
A Glendale resident believes the village played a more prominent role in the Underground Railroad than is currently known. Bill Parrish, author and president of the Eckstein Cultural Arts Center in ...
It’s the holiday season; a time to hopefully connect with family and celebrate another year together. As you sit with parents, grandparents, and maybe even great-grandparents, there is often that trip ...
Western New York honored Underground Railroad history Tuesday as the Peace Bridge and Old County Hall glow yellow and white for hope, freedom and remembrance.
The Underground Railroad leading escaped slaves to freedom in Canada is an important part of local history, and the Lorain County Historical Society deserves credit for its effort to keep this side of ...
When the author Kai Thomas was researching his first novel, he came across a black-and-white photo from the mid-1800s. KAI THOMAS: I was struck by the image. Photography was just being invented, and ...
Beneath downtown Dallas lies a little-known chapter of the city’s transportation history: a network of railroad tunnels built ...
Madeleine Wright is a bilingual general assignment reporter for CBS News Philadelphia who is fluent in Spanish. She joined the team in January 2022 and was named the Delaware County reporter in July ...