It may seem odd to talk about a 200-year-old issue as an “emerging field,” but that’s what is happening among historians who are only now uncovering traces of the Texas Underground Railroad.

A historic South Texas church and cemetery have been named a national site that was part of the Underground Railroad that helped slaves seek freedom in Mexico in the 1800s.

Archaeologists and historians have uncovered new clues about the Underground Railroad and the people who risked their lives to escape enslavers in 19th-century America.

The National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program and the Organization of American Historians will host a virtual public open house on Thursday to conclude a ...

Two underground Dallas subway stations that are all but forgotten. Curious Texas digs for answers Two Dallas subway stations -- one at Knox Street and another downtown -- never made it off the ...

More than 20 of the homes that served as safehouses or "stations" on the Underground Railroad for escaped slaves fleeing north now operate as bed and breakfasts, many with their hideaways and ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...