Caroline Hixson's "incredible story offered readers a glimpse into a supposedly bygone world of slavers, enslaved peoples, overseers, and plantations." ...

Residents and guests at the Covenant Living Holmstad in Batavia learned about “Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on ...

Happy Black History Month! I love any excuse to talk about very obscure, long-gone car companies, and this seems like the ...

A letter from a former slave who lived on a Wilson County plantation in the mid-1800s offers a new look into how she adjusted to life after slavery was abolished.

The central Indiana residence was a key stop on the Underground Railroad, the storied network of secret routes and safe ...

ICE raids compared to to modern-day slave patrols, highlighting similarities in racial profiling and disregard for constitutional rights.

Patricia Smithfields, who runs the LB Brown Museum in Bartow, sees lessons of perseverance and humanity in the story of a ...