Many of the homes of the Underground Railroad's "agents" and "conductors" provided shelter for escapees amid their travels. Here are some that are available to visit along the trail. Thomas Garrett ...

Robert Seeley of Havertown wants his ancestor,Thomas Garrett to be pardoned posthumously. Garrett was an Underground Railroad Conductor.

The home was one of two properties officially incorporated into the town's historic district by the town council earlier this month.

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with journalist Scott Shane, who traced the naming of the Underground Railroad back to the writings of the little-known 19th century abolitionist Thomas Smallwood.

The phrase 'underground railroad' dates back to an operation of escapes organized by Thomas Smallwood, a Black shoemaker in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Thomas Elkins was a prominent Black physician who played a pivotal role in Underground Railroad efforts in Albany before the Civil War ...

Five Best: Books on the Underground Railroad Selected by Kai Thomas, the author, most recently, of ‘In the Upper Country.’ By Kai Thomas Share Resize ...

Newark Advocate history columnist Doug Stout of the Licking County Library, says Ye Olde Mill, home to Velvet Ice Cream, was on the Underground Railroad.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Kai Thomas about his debut novel IN THE UPPER COUNTRY and exploring the Underground Railroad's little-known history in a community of free Black people in Canada.

The Gov. Thomas Kirker Homestead in Adams County is one of six Ohio sites recently added to the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program. The homestead was a station on the Underground ...

In the mid-1800s, the church became a station in the Underground Railroad, a secret network of travel routes and safe houses that guided slaves to free states.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with author Kai Thomas about his debut novel IN THE UPPER COUNTRY and exploring the Underground Railroad's little-known history in a community of free Black people in Canada.