On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad.” Connie Martin, an Illinois Humanities Road ...

The changes to the Underground Railroad page were originally detailed in a Washington Post expose on Sunday and immediately drew widespread criticism. Bernice King, the daughter of Martin Luther ...

Fergus Bordewich, a historian and author of a book on the “Underground Railroad,” criticized the edits in an interview with CNN. “To oversimplify history is to distort it,” he said.