At a presentation on Thursday, historian Karen Sieber will share her findings on Minnesota's connection to freeing enslaved ...

Lt. R. S. Williamson led portions of the southern survey, aided by Lt. John Parke. It was Parke and his team who traversed ...

When the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was founded in 1850, it was the first major railroad in the west, and the only one headquartered in Kentucky. In the ... Front Matter Download XML Table of ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped ... the South lost 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850. An organized system to assist runaway slaves seems to have begun towards ...

The railroad was a technological risk-taker ... carpeted floors and elaborately painted ceilings. But in the 1850s, safety was a more basic concern. Locomotives were safe enough if the boiler ...

The Underground Railroad Education Center in Arbor Hill is expanding.The current building is a community staple, sharing ...

The ferry operator pulled his large flatboat to the edge of the Virginia shore of the Ohio River. He watched and listened ...

In the 1850s and 1860s, British North America became ... In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and white ...