Few stories in American history combine as much suspense, adventure and moral righteousness as the Underground Railroad—the far ... Until recently, few books have penetrated the character ...

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

The National Park Service, an agency charged with preserving history as it happened ... and the author of a book on one of the founders of the Underground Railroad, these changes and several ...

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

The U.S. agency appeared to restore text on the history of African Americans escaping slavery, including a photo of famed ...

a historian and the author of a book about the Underground Railroad, said in a statement. “To oversimplify history is to distort it,” Bordewich said. “Americans are not infants: they can ...

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.

He said the history of the Underground Railroad, or of anything else, doesn’t change because someone banned books from a library or rewrote a web page. The way Keown sees it, that history is as ...