News

The webpage's administrators temporarily changed an introductory paragraph to emphasize “Black/White Cooperation.” ...
The U.S. agency appeared to restore text on the history of African Americans escaping slavery, including a photo of famed ...
Longwood Gardens has successfully moved the Cox House, a historic home that once served as a stop on the Underground Railroad ...
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...
Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...
A store in downtown Charleston has been continuously selling alcohol for almost 340 years, making it the oldest liquor store ...
Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites ...
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 ...
Few stories in American history combine as much suspense, adventure and moral righteousness as the Underground Railroad—the far-flung system of safe houses established to enable between 50,000 ...
A 366-unit affordable apartment development called Trinity Square, estimated to cost $157 million, is planned next to the ...
Thirty years after its founding by a small group of individuals, the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is ...