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

On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the ...

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.

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 ...