Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An up and coming Underground Railroad and Civil War interpretive site, the Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township observed Black ...

The Underground Railroad was not underground, and it wasn’t an actual train. It was a network of people, both whites and free Blacks, who worked together to help runaways from slaveholding states ...

The Midwest Underground Railroad Network, which started as the The Little Calumet River Underground Railroad Project and has grown over the years to encompass the pre-Civil War history of the entire ...

Local historian John Morris will present “An Underground Railroad Operator: Abraham Morris and his family in the Civil War” when the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table meets 2 p.m. Sunday, March 15, ...

Maps, photos and a hidden history: Underground Railroad exhibit opens in Alton ...

CHURCH CREEK, MD ‒ Arnold Montgomery looks to the future by looking back through Harriett Tubman's eyes. On a recent visit to the rural area where the Underground Railroad's most famous conductor was ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The National Parks Service is hosting an event to celebrate the recent inclusions of Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie in the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program. "A ...

INSIDE THE B AND O RAILROAD MUSEUM, YOU’LL FIND CENTURIES WORTH OF RAILROAD HISTORY. SO MUCH OF IT IS ALSO BLACK HISTORY. AS WE GEAR UP FOR OUR 200TH ANNIVERSARY IN 2027, YOU CAN REALLY SEE THAT BLACK ...

Soon, next year we are told, the heretofore hidden history of Illinois’ Underground Railroad will begin to be assembled, documented, recorded and made public. And it only took 200 years. Soon, we are ...