Few stories in American history combine as much suspense, adventure and moral righteousness as the Underground Railroad—the far ... Until recently, few books have penetrated the character ...

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

With that, he introduced speaker William Switala, a 52-year borough resident, retired educator and author of three books about the Underground Railroad ... His Black History Month talk in the ...

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 ...