Have you ever visited the John Brown Monument in Akron? Here is an opportunity. The Summit County Historical Society, the ...

What did the Civil War do to railroading? The changes were rapid, profound, lasting, and formed the real basis of truly ...

The Houston Chronicle's editorial board has won a Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for its coverage of the dangers of ...

The Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township will be open to the public on a limited basis starting later this month, according to a news release.

For hundreds of communities nationwide, plans to protect against natural disasters and climate change have been upended ...

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

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

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 ...

Officials at Cincinnati's Freedom Center learned last week that the history they tell about the Underground Railroad conflicts with a revised version favored by the Trump administration.

Leslie Pielack has been surprised at the numbers of people who have visited a traveling exhibit highlighting Oakland County connections to the Underground Railroad. “It’s unbelievably popular ...

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 backlash over the changes.

The National Parks Service has restored the original Harriet Tubman material featured on a webpage about the Underground Railroad after garnering outrage over its removal. In February, a photo and ...