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NEW YORK -- A hidden chapter of history that was quietly waiting in plain sight has just been uncovered in New York City, concealed behind a second-floor dresser at the Merchant's House Museum.

“It’s a critical piece of the overall struggle for freedom and justice,” said one city councilmember A "safe house" tied to the Underground Railroad was recently discovered in a New York City museum ...

A previously undocumented Underground Railroad site has been discovered inside the 1832 Merchant’s House Museum in Manhattan, revealing what researchers say is the earliest known location of ...

Enslaved Africans with dreams of being free found safety in the heart of NYC. To the naked eye, the 4-story brick row house on East 4th Street is just another of the 19th-century buildings on a block ...

It speaks volumes that Jim Wright, the chairman of the Railroad Commission, makes news when he recuses himself from voting on a permit for a company he has a financial stake in. Such is the state of ...

Small opening cut into floor at Merchant’s House Museum indicates site was probably used as ‘safe house’, experts say A landmark house in Manhattan preserved as a museum to New York’s 19th-century ...

Production of this article included the use of AI. It was reviewed and edited by a team of content specialists. A hidden passageway linked to the Underground Railroad has been discovered inside a ...

What’s at stake: Far and away, Texas commands U.S. oil and gas. The industry drills more oil and other hydrocarbons than all the other states combined. This massive industry employs nearly half a ...

Jan. 1, 1983 marked the official end of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad name, as the company had officially been consolidated into the corporation Americans now know as CSX Transportation. The ...

Hidden inside a historic 19th century house on East Fourth Street in Manhattan is a secret sanctuary. Ever since the Merchant’s House Museum opened its doors to the public in 1936, visitors have lined ...