A project honoring Silvia Hector Webber, known as the "Harriet Tubman of the Underground Railroad to Mexico" in Texas, is using a $150,000 grant to create an interactive mapping project and ...

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 ...

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

This story was originally published at the Ohio Department of Natural Resources website. GALENA — The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) recently conducted a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open ...

at least 30 students are working on the Greenway project as well as a documentary with WVIA about Bucknell’s connections to the Underground Railroad and the Civil War. “This came out of a ...

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

The Underground Railroad Museum is gearing up to honor the civil rights movement on Saturday. The event will take place at ...

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 ...

In his episodic debut, Academy Award™ winner Barry Jenkins tackles a topical and electrifying subject that speaks directly to this in the new Amazon Original series The Underground Railroad on ...

Only a small number of slaves traveled by the organized network of routes, "conductors" and "stations" that came to be known as the Underground Railroad. African American men and women of all ages ...