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 Friday, Upper Darby unveiled a historical marker to help residents learn about the township’s role in the Underground Railroad. Township officials, including Mayor Edward Brown, were joined ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The anti-human trafficking nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) has a new CEO for the third time in three years. Tammy Lee took over in February 2024 after multiple ...

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 ...

The National Park Service (NPS) has removed a reference to abolitionist Harriet Tubman from its webpage dedicated to the Underground Railroad. For years, the NPS’s page on the Underground ...

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.

Andrew Diemer, a professor at Towson University and author of a book on one of the network’s founders, said that while some White abolitionists supported the Underground Railroad, changes ...

“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.

The National Park Service on Monday returned an image of and quote from Harriet Tubman to a webpage about the Underground Railroad, following backlash after her presence on the page was ...