PORTSMOUTH — The Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative has reached a significant milestone in its mission to document the region's Underground Railroad history, with the first three of ...

It's an effort to shed new light on how American slaves escaped to freedom. As the nation reexamines its long and troubled relationship with race, the National Park Service has opened 16 new locations ...

The Larkspur Heritage Preservation Board is working on a project to install historical plaques commemorating the city’s railroad past. Alex Othon, a city planner, said the board discussed the project ...

An up and coming Underground Railroad and Civil War interpretive site, the Mifflin farmstead in Hellam Township observed Black History Month Feb. 6, 2025 with notables gathering in spite of the icy ...

Thirty years after its grand opening as a unit of the National Park Service, Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pa., is at a crossroads. Whether you admire or disdain it, know nothing about ...

Local keepers of the history of the Underground Railroad in the Chicago area and south suburbs are applauding progress of state legislation to create a statewide commission devoted to the subject.

Soon, next year we are told, the heretofore hidden history of Illinois’ Underground Railroad will begin to be assembled, documented, recorded and made public. And it only took 200 years. Soon, we are ...

New interpretive center at the Stephen and Harriet Myers Education Center will be a net-zero energy structure with aid of NYSERDA grant A ceremonial groundbreaking for the new interpretative center at ...