Since 2011, Cornelia Swinson has served as the Executive Director of the Johnson House Historic Site. "Johnson House is a National Historic Landmark and an official station on the Underground Railroad ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — During Black History Month, Rochester residents have a significant reason to celebrate. The city is recognized as one of the five key U.S. cities central to the abolition movement, ...

A Cincinnati, Ohio, home that functioned as a stop on the Underground Railroad; the photo was taken ca. 1905. Division, crisis, and political violence are hardly new in the history of the United ...

Walking through the doors of the Cozad-Bates House, visitors embark on a journey into the past, a step closer to understanding the struggles that paved the way for freedom and equality. Constructed in ...

Historians gather on 190th anniversary of founding of NY State Anti-Slavery Society to dub Utica the birthplace of American abolition movement, Underground Railroad. Hope Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church in ...

Part of a series of profiles during Black History Month highlighting unsung African-American figures from New England. Long before Frederick Douglass became a famous abolitionist, before his speeches ...

In his new book, The Conductor, Caleb Franz tells the story of Reverend John Rankin, a pioneering Ohio abolitionist who helped about 2,000 people flee from slavery. When Reverend John Rankin moved to ...

It is well known that Anna Maria Vassa, the eldest daughter of Black British abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, died on July 31, 1797, and was buried in Chesterton. However, the exact site of her grave had ...

Christle Rawlins-Jackson, president of Beacon Hill Scholars, and Peter Snoad, project coordinator of Beacon Hill Scholars, walking along the Abolition Acre trail on Oct. 21, 2025. Boston’s Old State ...

Every February, Black History Month invites us not only to celebrate achievement, but to correct the record. Some stories are not merely incomplete; they are mis-framed in ways that shape how power, ...