Few people have made such a powerful imprint on American history as Harriet Tubman did. A former enslaved person, Tubman […] ...

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

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The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by fugitive slaves to escape from the plantations of the South. If caught, they would be forcibly returned.

Crane, R-Ariz., and Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., introduced the Subterranean Border Defense Act to require an annual report on the federal government's knowledge of illegal underground border-crossing ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the latest report in a series about the famed Lockport Cave and the flood of rumors that persist about underground Lockport.

A year later, she risked everything to help other slaves find freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, a network of secret safe houses used to help slaves escape to free states. She is ...

After escaping from slavery, she undertook more than 10 missions to rescue about 70 enslaved individuals, using the Underground Railroad—a network of anti-slavery activists and safe houses. In New ...

The Hardts spent roughly $15 million building what Brett called their “dream house,” moving in in 2017. They paid close to $1 million for the lot itself, which is located in an affluent gated ...

For years, the house next door to ours was condemned. The retired federal employee who owned it lived elsewhere and seemed mostly to use the property to store a whole bunch of his junk.

“Sanctuary Road,” which Campbell wrote with composer Paul Moravec, is about the Underground Railroad ... March 7 to 9 at the Lexington Opera House. Sanctuary Road principal artists Mariah ...

MY understanding of a safe house is that it is a place where victims of violence such as abused spouses can take refuge on a temporary basis and receive protection from the forces that are putting ...