Unlike Colson Whitehead's literal network of tracks and trains, the Underground Railroad was actually a series of secret routes and safe houses that, by one estimation, enabled 100,000 enslaved ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

The George and Harriet Stevens, Roswell and George Valentine, Hiram and Celeste Walker, and Niles and Lydia Carpenter homes each shared secret ... freedom on the Underground Railroad.

Deep underground, remains of the city’s busiest street in the 6th century were found. This was a busy thoroughfare with many shops, archaeologists say. Many objected to, and loudly protested ...

In Secret Agents of the Underground Railroad, host Anthony Morgan follows an excavation at Heritage Park, a remarkable site in Niagara Falls that was home to the Cataract House, an upscale hotel ...

In the decades leading up to the Civil War, fearless throngs defied prison or worse to secretly shuttle as many as 7,000 slaves escaped from the South on a months-long slog through Illinois and on to ...

The George and Harriet Stevens, Roswell and George Valentine, Hiram and Celeste Walker, and Niles and Lydia Carpenter homes each shared secret ... freedom on the Underground Railroad.