If you want to see what this nation is all about, you must ride the rails. Look outside as you speed through, and you’ll find ...

Momentum has been building in Illinois to research the state’s extensive Underground Railroad sites and decide how to commemorate this history.

The book "History of the Underground Railroad" recounts the efforts of Quakers Jonathan and Susanna Mifflin – including the time they hid 13 slaves in their parlor.

The Troy Historic Village recently opened its summer exhibit on the Underground Railroad, open now through Aug. 28.

WAVERLY TWP. — Visitors at the Waverly Community House can learn about Waverly’s role in the Underground Railroad with a historic marker outside the building. Community House staff will forma… ...

The book, “A History of the Underground Railroad in Decatur County,” will be officially available to the public June 14 during a kickoff event at Art on the Square Art Gallery in Greensburg ...

Ohio has more sites in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program than any other state, and a new initiative in southern Ohio is playing a key role in adding even more.

When WGN America’s drama “Underground” debuted last winter, it seemed like a cultural outlier. Stories from the Underground Railroad had long been relegated to nonfiction or the broad and ...

Albany's Underground Railroad Education Center is the latest local space for history and education to receive notice that their federal IMLS grant is cut.

An up and coming Underground Railroad and Civil War interpretive site, the Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township observed Black History Month Feb. 6, 2025 with notables gathering in spite of the ...

McClellan has written three books on the Underground Railroad, including his latest effort, “Onward to Chicago: Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad in Northeastern Illinois,” in which ...

Colson Whitehead Looks Back at ‘The Underground Railroad’ The first in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.