Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS) If you were paying attention in history class, you'll recall the Underground Railroad ...

A historical feature about the Underground Railroad. A historical feature about the Underground Railroad and the important role Kansas played in the efforts to help enslaved African Americans in their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rita Daniels learned at 9 that she is the great-great-great-grandniece of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who led countless ...

Abolitionist Jermain Wesley Loguen played a role in Knoxville history. If you look closely, the records reveal even deeper ...

Barry Jenkins successfully justifies making a miniseries about slavery by balancing honesty about its horrors with tact in depicting brutality. The Underground Railroad tells a beautiful story out of ...

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Joe Illidge and Marcus Kwame Anderson are to adapt the late Ann Petry's Harriet Tubman: Conductor On The Underground Railroad, as a graphic novel, to be published by Tara Weikum at Harper Alley, in ...

Brownsville was a remote settlement started by a former slave that grew into a Black community on the Underground Railroad.

A tunnel was recently discovered in a Pennsylvania borough that could be part of the Underground Railroad, a historian theorizes. Researchers in the area have previously found sites that once served ...

Barry Jenkins is one of the major American filmmakers at work today. His Amazon limited series The Underground Railroad was added to the Criterion Collection on Tuesday. Barry Jenkins is one of the ...

Mr. Shane, a reporter for The New York Times from 2004 to 2019, is the author of the forthcoming book “Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery’s Borderland.” See more of our ...

Rita Daniels learned at 9 that she is the great-great-great-grandniece of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who led countless enslaved Africans to freedom through the Underground Railroad. It was a ...