From the 1830s to the 1860s, John Rankin, a farmer, was the linchpin of Ripley’s Underground Railroad. Well before the Civil War began, the Ohio River separated North and South, ...

Corpse, or coffin roads, were used throughout the Scottish Highlands and Islands to carry caskets on foot from the remotest places once populated by thousands, to cemeteries with burial rites.

April 17 was the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s brutal takeover of Cambodia. During five dark and desperate years, 2 ...

Amazon Studios just landed Barry Jenkins' next big project. The Moonlight director will write and direct a one-hour original limited drama, The Underground Railroad, for the streaming service ...