In the rural Iowa town of Salem, the community holds tangible remnants of the Underground Railroad.The Lewelling Quaker ...

“Sanctuary Road,” which Campbell wrote with composer Paul Moravec, is about the Underground Railroad, a network of people and places that helped more than 500,000 enslaved African-American ...

The cemetery is Minnesota’s newest landmark on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Hare was a black Union soldier during the American Civil War before re-enlisting with the ...

Harriet Tubman was the trailblazing leader of the Underground Railroad, which helped to free 70 enslaved people from the South to the North. Archaeologists with MDOT said the findings from an ...

From enslaved women concealing rice grains in their hair to Underground Railroad maps woven inside cornrows, Black hair has often been recognized in the multi-ethnic Black community as a symbol of ...

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white sympathizers who helped runaways. Harriet Tubman helped hundreds of ...

Contractors had to halt work on Railroad Street when they found that underground pipes were not as deep as they were shown on engineering drawings years ago. The mayor added that gas companies and ...

As the Tube network has evolved, so has the map by which Underground passengers navigate around the capital. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be using these maps to tell you the story of each of ...

The London Underground map almost looked very different this year. There were at least 27 new names considered for the London Overground lines before being dropped. The rebranding project was part ...

Because the Underground Railroad was risky, it was highly secretive and the journey wasn't recorded. Instead, the virtual map was embedded in secret phrases, spiritual songs, and the color of ...

Archaeologists discovered an ancient underground city beneath Abarkuh, Iran, where residents in Iran escaped above-ground heat. In the subterranean settlement, they found an aqueduct to transport ...