UNDERGROUND RAILROAD GATEWAYS 

Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register Travel Itinerary
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/

History Channel's Underground Railroad
http://www.historychannel.com/blackhistory/?page=exhibits2

The Menare Foundation's North Star Website
http://www.menare.org/

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
http://www.freedomcenter.org/

The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, National Park Service
http://www.cr.nps.gov/ugrr/

NPS  Exploring a Common Past: Researching and Interpreting the Underground Railroad
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/ugrr/exugrr1.htm

NPS Teaching With Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/

PBS's Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia

Slavery and the Making of America
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/

The Underground Railroad (National Geographic Society)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/hfame.html

UNDERGROUND RAILROAD ARCHIVES AND EXHIBITS

Accessible Archives
http://library.millersville.edu

Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection at Temple University
http://library.temple.edu/collections/blockson/index.jsp?bhcp=1

"The Faces of Slavery and Other Early Images of African Americans"
American Museum of Photography
http://www.photographymuseum.com/faceof.html

Historical U.S. Census Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/

H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine
http://www.h-net.org/

Lancaster County Historical Society
http://www.lancasterhistory.org

Penn State University: Pennsylvania Civil War Newspapers
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/digital/newspapers/civilwar/

Library of Congress, American Memory Collection
http://memory.loc.gov/

NPS Civil War Soldier and Sailors System
http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/

Remembering Slavery: Those Who Survived to Tell Their Stories
http://www.uncg.edu/~jpbrewer/remember/index.html
 

UGRR LOCAL HISTORY and HERITAGE TOURISM

PA African American History

Afro Lumens: Central Pennsylvania African American History
http://www.afrolumens.org/

Christiana (PA) Resistance of 1851
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/christiana/index.htm

Explore PA History: Underground Railroad
http://www.explorepahistory.com/story.php?storyId=8

The Indiana County (PA) Underground Railroad Project
http://www.chss.iup.edu/ugrr/

Safe Harbor: Preserving Underground Railroad sites
http://www.wqln.org/safeharbor/

The Underground Railroad and York County, PA
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/yorkugrr/york_ugrr.htm

National African American History

African Burial Ground in NYC, General Services Administrations
http://www.africanburialground.gov/ABG_Main.htm

Buxton National Historic Site and Museum (North Buxton, Ontario, Canada)
http://www.buxtonmuseum.com

Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport: Race and the Boundaries of Freedom in Antebellum Maritime America
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org

Fort Mose Historical Society
http://www.fortmose.org

Levi Jordan Plantation
http://www.webarchaeology.com/html/Default.htm

The Ohio Historical Society: Picturing Ohio's Hisotry, Wilbur H. Siebert Underground Railroad Collection
http://www.ohiohistory.org/etcetera/exhibits/ohiopix/galleries.cfm?Gallery=18

Motherland Connextions
http://www.motherlandconnextions.com/

Quindaro, Kansas on the Underground Railroad
http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/kscoll/lochist/quindaro/quindaro.htm

Territorial  Kansas: A Virtual Repository for Territorial Kansas History, 1854-1861
http://www.territorialkansasonline.org/cgiwrap/imlskto/index.php

Seacoast New Hampshire Black History 
http://www.seacoastnh.com/blackhistory/index.html

The Underground Railroad Project (Vermont Historical Society)
http://www.state.vt.us/vhs/educate/ugrr.htm

Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War
http://valley.vcdh.virginia.edu/

UGRR ON-LINE ACTIVITIES and EXERCISES

The Underground Railroad in Lancaster County: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/resources/columbia/cwsoldiers.htm

The Underground Railroad in Lancaster County: The Creation of Bethel A.M.E. Church
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/resources/lancastercity/bethelame.htm

The Underground Railroad in Lancaster County: Quaker Abolitionism
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/resources/solanco/quaker.htm

The Underground Railroad in Lancaster County: Pownall Family Perspective
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/resources/christiana/pownall.htm

The Underground Railroad in Lancaster County: Snapshot of African American Community
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/resources/columbia/census.htm

The Underground Railroad in Lancaster County: African American Newspapers, 19th century
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/resources/columbia/afamnewspapers.htm

Explorepahistory.com Lesson Plans: There Were Many Paths to Freedom
http://www.explorepahistory.com/viewLesson.php?id=21

Explorepahistory.com Lesson Plans: 150 Years of Abolition in Pennsylvania
http://www.explorepahistory.com/viewLesson.php?id=19

The Amistad Case, National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/amistad/

The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the  Civil War, National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/

NEH EDSITEment Lesson Plans: Families in Bondage
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=280

NEH EDSITEment Lesson Plans:  Free African Americans in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/teaching/college/activity3.html

NEH EDSITEment Lesson Plans: Perspectives on the Slave Narratives
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=321

NEH EDSITEment Lesson Plans: Spirituals
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=318

NEH EDSITEment Lesson Plans: Who Was Cinque?
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?ID=308

NPS Teaching With Historic Places Lesson Plans: Memories of Montpelier
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/46montpelier/46montpelier.htm

NPS Teaching With Historic Places Lesson Plans: The Old Courthouse in St. Louis
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/9stlouis/9stlouis.htm

The Underground Railroad Site at the University of California, Davis
http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm

Runaway Journeys, In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=2

Monument to the Underground Railroad, A Freedom Quest for Grades 5-8, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
http://www.undergroundrailroad.org/freedomquests/monuments/webquest.asp

The Price of Freedom, Catoctin Mountain Park, National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/archive/cato/educ/les4.htm

Underground Railroad Museum Project, WNET New York
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/constructivism/lp_elem1.html

Teaching the Underground Railroad, Northern Kentucky University, Institute for Freedom Studies
http://www.nku.edu/~undergroundrr/lessonplans/

Child of the Underground Railroad: Lesson Plan for Malinda Paris, Department of History, Arts, and Libraries, State of Michigan
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-52901--,00.html

Wisconsin's Role in the Underground Railroad, Wisconsin Historical Society
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/turningpoints/lessonplans/search.asp?id=100

The Underground Railroad in Canada, Canadian Teachers Guide
http://www.pc.gc.ca/canada/proj/cfc-ugrr/itm1-ex/ex5_e.asp

STUDENT PROJECTS ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

Christiana (PA) Resistance of 1851
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/christiana/index.htm

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, Pocantico Hill School, Sleepy Hollow, NY
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/tubman.html

Underground Railroad by the Providence Elementary School
http://www.solanco.k12.pa.us/providence/UGRR/index.htm

The Underground Railroad and York County, PA
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~ugrr/yorkugrr/york_ugrr.htm

Welcome to Seneca Village
http://projects.ilt.columbia.edu/seneca/start.html