Western New York honored Underground Railroad history Tuesday as the Peace Bridge and Old County Hall glow yellow and white ...

NEW YORK — A newly identified Underground Railroad passageway once used by enslaved people fleeing to freedom is putting the spotlight on a New York City museum and its struggle against a proposed ...

Earlier this year, the Merchant’s House Museum in New York made a remarkable discovery. A passageway that had been nestled into a set of drawers was once used to hide enslaved people seeking freedom ...

For over 50 years, Tubman called New York’s Finger Lakes region home, a place where she lived, worked, worshiped, and continued her fight for freedom. New York is commemorating the legacy of freedom ...

The Underground Railroad was an organized network in the United States that helped enslaved African Americans escape to freedom through safe houses and secret routes with the help of abolitionists, ...

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 ...