Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

Mifflin Farm, a 79-acre site in Wrightsville, has a lot of history. The Farm includes the Mifflin House, which housed enslaved people traveling to freedom on the Underground Railroad. It also was the ...

A major flash point came when Union soldiers entered Hotel De Afrique and “attacked the defenseless occupants with knives and ...

"Abraham Lincoln had friends and relatives in California, including Santa Cruz," writes columnist Ross Eric Gibson. "A 13-year-old Charles H. Lincoln came to California from Maine in 1852 for the Gold ...

Illinois Humanities Road Scholar Connie Martin will give a presentation at the Reddick Public Library in Ottawa as she shares ...

A hotel was North Carolina’s first “safe haven” for enslaved people during the Civil War. But perils still ... It’s “part of the Underground Railroad which commemorates the resistance ...

The building on Hatteras Island is considered the “first safe haven for African Americans” escaping slavery in North Carolina during the Civil War ... the Underground Railroad which ...

Every summer, tourists flocked to Rock Rest, a tidy house tucked away in the woods on the outskirts of Kittery. After ...

One can hardly imagine what the night of Feb. 17, 1865, must have been like in Charleston. Hours before surrendering to Union ...