Until recently, few books have penetrated the character and motives of the estimated 3,000 men and women who, as they aided fugitives and led them to safety, constituted the Underground Railroad.

For the rest of his life, John Lewis bore a scar on his forehead from the police beating he endured during the 1965 civil ...

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

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.

When the National Park Service rewrote the Underground Railroad's story, it pulled Cincinnati's Freedom Center into Trump's war over history.

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 ...

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