The Van Oostenbrugge Homestead in South Holland, slated for demolition, may find a new life as the office of the Midwest ...
Dr. Barbara Suggs-Mason & Pat Cain talk to ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander about the upcoming exhibit titled Journey to ...
"Journey Through Freedom," a new exhibit opening at The Urbana Free Library, brings the story back into local streets, quiet rooms and the lived geography of Champaign County, where freedom ...
Ithaca’s St. James AME Zion Church, constructed between 1833 and 1836, served a crucial role in the Underground Railroad. As the city’s primary station, the church hosted abolitionist leaders Harriet ...
Juneteenth, the federal holiday commemorating a significant step toward the end of slavery in the United States, marks a delayed freedom. It honors the day in 1865 when Union troops arrived in ...
Chautauqua County women Carolyn Loguen (1817-1867) and Mary Ann Brown (1814-1842) were active in New York state’s ...