Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites ...

An assessment of restoring the historic Mayhew Cabin and John Brown’s Cave site in Nebraska City estimates it would cost in ...

Nestled in the back of the Guilford College woods is a lone champion tulip poplar tree. At more than 350 years old, it has ...

Nestled in the back of the Guilford College woods is a lone champion tulip poplar tree. At more than 350 years old, it has ...

The Calumet River Underground Railroad Project was renamed the Midwest Underground Railroad Network and now has a ...

William German helped the freedom-seeking Parker family in October 1859. Henry Parker and his mother and sisters fled Kentucky via the Underground Railroad, likely directed to German through the ...

The content was replaced with a collage of Underground Railroad stamps from the U.S. Postal Service that highlight “Black/White Cooperation” in transporting escaped slaves to freedom in the north.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of ... her ideals and dedicated her ...

“The Underground Railroad—the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War—refers to the efforts of enslaved African Americans to gain their freedom ...

(CNN) — The National Park Service on Monday returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad ... for slaves seeking freedom. But sometime in ...