On a recent Tuesday evening, the Arcadia town board joined many other townships, villages and cities across New York State in ...

Jacob Morris, the head of the Harlem Historical Society, has a vision for Lower Manhattan: He wants to establish a trail ...

The Underground Railroad had various routes that ran north from the slave states to Canada or south to Mexico. Because of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, it wasn’t enough for slaves to flee to ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. African American men and women of all ages ...

The Underground Railroad in Decatur County display is open at the Decatur County Historical Society Museum, 222 N. Franklin ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

A Looking for Lincoln Conversations program will look at Livingston County's people and the Underground Railroad's hidden ...

retired educator and author of three books about the Underground Railroad, a term that “came along as an attempt to explain escape routes that enslaved people used,” he explained. His Black ...

Joseph Mitlof, founder of the Historic Underground Railroad Society, believes so, and pushed for a marker to be erected here at the corner of Routes 59 and 9W: "At this crossroads stood the home ...

A task force in Illinois has identified over 400 Underground Railroad sites and is pushing for legislation to support these ...

Her exhibit "Stolen Identities: River Routes to Freedom" at the Victor Valley Museum explores the history of slavery, the Underground Railroad, and modern-day human trafficking. Deborah McDuff ...