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There’s a marker now in the 400 block of Shadeland Avenue letting people know it is the site of the Riverview House/Cleveland ...
Explore Illinois’ Underground Railroad history at Beardstown’s Old Lincoln Courtroom exhibit, featuring stories, photos and ...
Tom Shepard said the Underground Railroad is ignored despite Chicago’s South Side and south suburbs identified as home to ...
Confederate symbols, and their continued valorization, rob us of an opportunity to understand our own rich “people’s heritage ...
Illinois has a deep connection to the Underground Railroad. That's why lawmakers are pushing an initiative to preserve sites ...
On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad.” Connie Martin, an Illinois Humanities Road ...
Officials at Cincinnati's Freedom Center learned last week that the history they tell about the Underground Railroad conflicts with a revised version favored by the Trump administration.
Leslie Pielack has been surprised at the numbers of people who have visited a traveling exhibit highlighting Oakland County connections to the Underground Railroad. “It’s unbelievably popular ...
The National Parks Service has restored the original Harriet Tubman material featured on a webpage about the Underground Railroad after garnering outrage over its removal. In February, a photo and ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public ...
The National Park Service has restored references to abolitionist Harriet Tubman to its webpage on the Underground Railroad after initially defending the removal. “Changes to the Underground ...