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

Supporters of the ambitious Rio Grande Plan to bury some of Salt Lake City's dividing train tracks have a new $12 billion ...

But according to a new analysis by researchers at Utah State University's Huntsman School of Business, investing in the so-called "Rio Grande Plan" would immediately generate a profit for the state of ...

The area is what the IBWC calls a “critical component” of the Lower Rio Grande Flood Control Project ... take water to the Laguna Madre, near the Gulf. But it didn’t remove water quickly ...

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 news reports and public backla ...

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Persian Gulf Command. The unloading at Khorramshar was done by two battalions, one white, the other colored. There was a great rivalry between the two outfits over ...

(The Hill) — The National Parks Service has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad. For years, the Parks’ page on the ...

Information about Harriet Tubman has been restored to a National Park Service website about the Underground Railroad. The National Park Service said Monday that a portrait and a quote from Tubman ...

She was proud of being born in Helper which is a railroad and coal mining community in Utah where her father, as an electrician, was a signal maintainer for the Denver and Rio Grande railroad.

JACKSONVILLE — A group of historians, academics and legislators spent the last year finding sites connected to the Underground Railroad in Illinois and focusing on telling the stories of those ...

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