One of America’s great early engineering feats, the Erie Canal was first completed in 1825 and helped ensure New York City’s place as the economic capital of the country. Here are 14 facts you ...

OHIO — The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program has added 31 new sites and programs that are dedicated to the history of the Underground Railroad Network. The Network to Freedom ...

Vaughan and Cliff Chiang, brings together four kids riding bikes on their paper delivery routes in 1988 ... Colson Whitehead's novel The Underground Railroad into a powerful 10-episode series.

Experience pickles in multiple different ways ... Food, vendors, music and local performances. Underground Railroad tours. Parade on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. from the Shenango Valley Urban League ...

Ohio has more sites in the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program than any other state, and a new ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - The Dora Franklin Finley African American Heritage Trail Underground Railroad Bike Tour is entering its 4th year. Karlos Finley and Rev. Charlotte Greene joined us on Good ...

NEW YORK — Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award for fiction Wednesday night for The Underground Railroad (Doubleday), the story of Cora, a young slave who through her wiles escapes ...

Residents of this historic black Petersburg community, which dates to the mid-18th century, watched as 215 Witten St. — widely believed to have been a stop on the Underground Railroad — was ...

The historical society also will host an Underground Railroad Experience on May 10 with ... Actors will tell the story of Ohio abolitionists who risked their lives to assist runaway slaves.

The Appalachian Freedom Heritage Tourism Initiative announced on May 8, 2025, a significant milestone in its mission to ...

The ruins of a Wyandotte County town site that served as an outpost on the Underground Railroad deserve to be ... in 1843 after being forced to leave Ohio by the U.S. government.