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

Changes to the Underground Railroad page on the National Park Service’s website were made without approval from NPS ...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

“Tubman’s removal from 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.