The Underground Railroad was known for helping many enslaved people escape to freedom. It consisted of a network of people ...

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

For February, also known as Black History Month, we visited the Belpre Historical Society to see the Underground Railroad Exhibit.

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

Enslaved fugitives referred to the Ohio River as the River Jordan. It was a metaphor for freedom like the Israelites’ flight from slavery in Egypt through the parted waters of the Red Sea. Except the ...

"There's a lot of excitement," Andy Spinelli, president of the museum, said this week. "We still have a lot of work to do, ...

Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the ...

But his work is far from over You’ve got questions. We’ve got experts Untold Stories of American History During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping ...

Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

Wheat production grew as new railroads connected farms and markets. In between 1875 and 1890, bonanza farms, as they were called, were created especially in the Red River Valley. They were funded by ...

By 1904 at least half of the logs brought to Manistee mills were brought in on railroad cars. Virtually all Manistee County railroads were built by lumbermen for the purpose of carrying forest ...

on its way to Grafton, W.Va., from Baltimore’s Chesapeake Bay Pier, in January 2024. Chase Gunnoe No railroads landed on the Wall Street Journal’s ranking of the 250 best-managed companies of 2024.