Scholastic
Scholastic: Harriet Tubman Web Hunt: Leading the Way to Freedom
A "web hunt" activity where students answer questions about Harriet Tubman and her experience on the underground railroad. Activity includes questions and internet links to find the answers to the questions.
PBS
Pbs: Levi Coffin's Underground Railroad Station
This site from PBS provides an excerpt from a historical document written by Levi Coffin about his Cincinnati Underground Railroad Station.
Other
Domestic Goddess: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by h.b.stowe
This wonderful site provided by WomenWriters gives a wealth of information about Harriet Beecher Stowe's slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin". There are links to very good criticism articles of the novel as well.
Other
Liberty Letters: Behind the Story: Escape on the Underground Railroad
Josiah Henson's eyewitness accounts of his escape from slavery on the freedom train to Canada.
Other
Pa Roots: Pennsylvania in the Civil War
Background information about Pennsylvania's involvement in the Civil War. This website describes briefly the impact Pennsylvania provided to the union forces during the war.
The History Cat
The History Cat: The Underground Railroad
A detailed look at how the Underground Railroad worked, some of the activists working against slavery, and some of the unique ways slaves managed to escape. Also discusses the economy that existed around the practice of slave tracking...
National Geographic
National Geographic: The Underground Railroad: Routes to Freedom
Map with Underground Railroad routes and text.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids History: Underground Railroad
On this site, students explore the Underground Railroad. Learn how this was a way for slaves to escape from the South and into free northern states and Canada.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Quiz: Underground Railroad for Kids
History Questions: Underground Railroad Quiz, Test, and WebQuest
Curated OER
National Park Service: The Life of Frederick Douglass
This site provides a brief biography of the life of Frederick Douglass. The site also contains links to the Underground Railroad, Women's Rights National Historical Park and other related sites.
Kentucky Educational Television
Ket: Kentucky's Underground Railroad: Passage to Freedom
Kentucky Educational Television presents this PBS Award Winning special about the Underground Railroad in Kentucky. Video clips, songs, and excellent research make this site comprehensible and very useful to ELL students and any student...
Stephen Byrne
History for Kids: Harriet Tubman
A brave woman on a mission to help free and protect African Americans from slavery in the 1800's, Harriet Tubman is featured in this concise biography. Get her story and discover some of her nicknames!
Ohio History Central
Ohio History Central: Harriet B. Stowe
The Ohio Historical Society offers a beautiful portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the famous "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Road to Freedom
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart takes students on a virtual trip on the Underground Railroad and introduces them to some important people who acted as conductors. It discusses how quilts were created with secret codes...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: African Heritage: Fighting for Freedom
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart aims to help students understand the role the Underground Railroad played in leading people out of slavery in the United States, particularly before the Civil War.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: African Heritage: Frederick Douglass
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart aims to help students understand how Frederick Douglass's writing painted a powerfully negative portrait of life on southern plantations. It uses video as well as text to inform students.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Follow the Drinking Gourd
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based upon the book, Follow the Drinking Gourd.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Henry's Freedom Box
Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through Reader's Theater Scripts. The focus is on reading the text with expressive voices and gestures - no memorization required! Have fun...
ClassFlow
Classflow: The Underground Railroad
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will utilize this flipchart while studying African American history in the United States, with a focus on the Underground Railroad.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: The Underground Railroad
Provides a summary and fun facts about the Underground Railroad, a secret organization that helped slaves escape from the bondage of slavery in the Southern slave states to freedom in the free states, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
University of Virginia
Univ. Of Virginia: Charles Dudley Warner, "The Story of Uncle Tom's Cabin"
This University of Virginia Library site provides the full text of Charles Dudley Warner's 1896 essay on Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin". It includes the history of the secession crisis.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography: Harriet Tubman for Kids
Kids learn about the biography of Harriet Tubman, the leader in the Underground Railroad who led many slaves to freedom on this website.
Social Studies for Kids
Social Studies for Kids: Josiah Henson: Model for Uncle
Read the story of the man who was the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Other
House Divided Project: Letters and Diaries: Thomas Garrett to William Still #3
Transcript of an original letter written from Thomas Garrett to fellow abolitionist William Still regarding particular routes of the Underground Railroad.