Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...

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.

Library of Congress An 8- by 5-inch 19th-century hymnal, bound in faded paperboard and cloth, bears its owner’s name handwritten on the inside cover ... along the Underground Railroad north ...

Tubman’s reduced presence on the Underground Railroad page “is both offensive and absurd,” Fergus Bordewich, a historian and the author of a book about the Underground Railroad, told CNN Sunday.