A task force in Illinois has identified over 400 Underground Railroad sites and is pushing for legislation to support these ...

Florence Griswold site among historic properties once owned by enslavers, rather than a stop on the Underground Railroad.

As the country prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary in 2026, Ohio has designed a series of tourism trails meant to ...

A new exhibit at the Marshall Public Library highlights the courageous stories of freedom seekers and multi-racial conductors who assisted them on the Underground ...

These discoveries were years in the making. Smithsonian reports that historians suspected Ross’s home was located in Peter’s Neck, Maryland—however, archaeologists couldn’t access it until the U.S.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...