With Miles
to Go Before I Sleep: Our Journey on the Underground Railroad. This is a detailed set of lessons on the Underground
Railroad.The activity is written for the students to get from
Ohio to Canada. If you'd prefer to have the students escaping
through the state they live in, feel free to re-arrange the project.
Taking
the Train to Freedom: Underground Railroad.
n 1990 Congress directed the National Park Service to study how
to best interpret and commemorate the Underground Railroad, emphasizing
the approximate routes taken by slaves escaping to freedom before
the Civil War. This study was completed in cooperation with an
advisory committee representing experts in historic preservation,
African American history, United States history, and members of
the general public with special interest and experience in the
Underground Railroad.
A Walk to Canada. The National Parks and Conservation Association,
played its part by supporting this site on the World Wide Web
which made it possible for thousands of people to follow my Walk
and to learn about plans to incorporate the Underground Railroad
as a unit of the National Park Service.
Our Shared History:
Celebrating African American History and Culture.
By using new scholarship, National Park Service historians, archeologists
and other preservation specialists have come to understand more
of the great breath and depth of this shared history and its relationship
to the overall fabric of American History.
How to Trace the
Underground Railroad. This site explores
the nature of the research on the Underground Railroad. Since
the very nature of the UGRR was secret, few people kept detailed
accounts of their activities. However, if you have the mind for
detective work, you can pursue and uncover the mysteries of the
UGRR.
National
Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center will be a national
education and distributive museum center located on the central
riverfront in Cincinnati. The Freedom Center, with an anticipated
grand opening in 2003, will develop the historic themes of the
Underground Railroad as they relate to contemporary society through
commemoration, education and inspiration.
Harriet
Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
The students in Mrs. Taverna's second grade class at Pocantico
Hills School in Sleepy Hollow, New York have been learning about
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.
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