A leg iron displayed at the North Star Underground Railroad Museum serves as a stark reminder of the North Country’s role in ...

The Chapel on the Green on Friday unveiled a new historical marker shedding light on Yorkville's involvement in the ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with journalist Scott Shane, who traced the naming of the Underground Railroad back to the writings of the little-known 19th century abolitionist Thomas Smallwood. The ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio (WCMH) — An Ohio attraction is showing the state’s integral role in the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad wasn’t actually underground. It was a system of people, houses, ...

I remember the first day driving around Chillicothe on the first assignment I photographed for the Gazette and the historical ambiance of the community and how it was so palpable. It was so striking ...

As a hobby, quilting is often about remembering loved ones. Today almost a million Americans make some kind of quilt, including replica Revolutionary War quilts, and, increasingly Underground Railroad ...

The new hip-hop musical “Mexodus” takes, and tells of, a road less traveled. The two-person show recalls the southbound underground railroad, a chapter in U.S. history that saw thousands of enslaved ...

YORK COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM)– An important stop of the underground railroad was right here in the Midstate. William Goodridge, the station master of the Goodridge Freedom Center, was a black man who became ...

When we recently asked just over 500 writers and other literary experts and enthusiasts to offer their thoughts on the best works of the 21st century so far, we thought it would also be fun to ask ...