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 nonprofit Susquehanna National Heritage Area bought the Mifflin House in Wrightsville in 2023 and has big plans for the ...

Harriet Tubman is perhaps the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's "conductors ... She promptly pulled out a book and feigned reading it. The ploy was enough to fool the men.

Iowa played a vital role in the Underground Railroad, serving as a crucial sanctuary for enslaved people seeking freedom from ...

Colson Whitehead's brutal, brilliant, award-winning novel The Underground Railroad re-imagines the routes that American slaves took to freedom as a literal series of tracks, platforms and covert ...