Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.

The Underground Railroad was a loose network of people who work together to offer shelter and aid to freedom seekers from the South, and it ran through the Susquehanna Valley. In this episode of ...

The Historic Mifflin House, a Wrightsville farmhouse that sheltered freedom seekers fleeing from slavery in the 1800s, joined ...

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 ...

India has achieved a significant milestone by inaugurating the world's longest railway platform at Shree Siddharoodha Swamiji Hubballi Junction in Karnataka. This 1,507-meter platform, now a ...

The London Underground is famously the world’s oldest subsurface metro system - and many would argue that it is by far the best. The first section, then known as the Metropolitan Railway ...

The underground railway is an unappreciated wonder of the world. Invented in 1863 by private entrepreneurs in London who were looking to make money transporting suburban commuters to work ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly ... Reading about Feiffer and Crumb made me think of another set of underground comics, ones that also present a world of ...

The erasure at the Park Service follows President Donald J. Trump’s recent executive order targeting the National Museum of African American History and Culture for being “divisive,” which ...

CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) — The Cumberland County Historical Society (CCHS) announced that it has acquired a rare Underground Railroad letter dating back to 1847. According to CCHS, the historic ...

During the 1860s, Olivet Baptist Church was an active stop on the Underground Railroad, helping escaped slaves with food and a warm place to stay. Olivet, the second-oldest Black church in Chicago ...

One fan recently took to Reddit to ask, ‘Where does the name Velvet Underground come from?’ sparking a wave of responses. User @moonlightserenade1966 shared the true origin: a paperback book.