Iowa played a vital role in the Underground Railroad, serving as a crucial sanctuary for enslaved people seeking freedom from ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

4, it served as a way station on the Underground Railroad, a rest stop for former slaves fleeing north to Canada. Soon, the barn could house a museum celebrating that heritage. “Today the former ...

The nonprofit Susquehanna National Heritage Area bought the Mifflin House in Wrightsville in 2023 and has big plans for the ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (WOOD) — Two sites in Battle Creek have been added to the National Underground Railroad Network to ...

Harriet Tubman escaped from brutal slave owners in 1849 and risked her life to help bring many more enslaved Americans to freedom via the Underground Railroad; this park a testament to her remarkable ...

Underground Railroad: The Williams Still Story is the story of a humble Philadelphia clerk who risked his life shepherding runaway slaves to freedom in the tumultuous years leading up to America ...

A dig at the site of the the once-renowned Cataract House Hotel in Niagara Falls, New York is no exception. In Secret Agents of the Underground Railroad, host Anthony Morgan follows an excavation ...

State officials then received applications from sites throughout the state ... hotels and family homes to earn money to fund the Underground Railroad. She directed freedom-seekers up through ...