For generations, the Underground Railroad has been the quintessential story of resistance against oppression. Yet, the story ...

The Cozad-Bates house was not a stop on the Underground Railroad — it was a training ground for abolitionists.

PONTIAC — Within its first decade of operation, the Underground Railroad was estimated to have helped about 100,000 enslaved ...

An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

Tucked amidst the towering structures of Cleveland’s University Circle, an old brick house stands as a testament to the ...

Their history is Brooklyn’s history, spanning from the borough’s era as a slaveholding capital in New York and through the ...

Multiple piers have come and gone along the Santa Cruz coast, and in the last two columns I have slowly meandered south from ...

It’s interesting how the southwest metropolitan area of the Twin Cities grew into a patchwork of cities, but there might have been more today if a few more places had survived. Today, we consider them ...

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

Abolitionist Rev. Jermain Loguen called Syracuse's Jerry Rescue of 1851 “earthquake voice through the land” against slavery.

Shutterstock Meet the Silver Queen of Colorado Sitting at 8,530 feet above sea level in the Rocky Mountains is one of ...

Preservation Iowa has added two properties to its list of most-endangered historic buildings. Where are they and can they be ...