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Brawley, Benjamin Griffith. Negro Builders and Heroes. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1937. Book Secondary 1937 Full Record
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Horton, Lois E. "Freedom Bound: The Underground Railroad in Lycoming County, PA." Journal of American History 91, no. 3 (December 2004): 1151. Journal Article Secondary 2004 Full Record
Whitman, T. Stephen. " ‘Just Over the Line’: Chester County and the Underground Railroad." Journal of American History 90, no. 1 (June 2003): 179-183.
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Williams-Myers, A. J. "Some Notes on the Extent of New York City's Involvement in the Underground Railroad." Afro - Americans in New York Life and History 29, no. 2 (July 2005): 73-82 Journal Article Secondary 2005 Full Record
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Carey, Patrick W. "Political Atheism: Dred Scott, Roger Brooke Taney, and Orestes A Brownson." Catholic Historical Review 88, no. 2 (2002): 207-229. Journal Article Secondary 2002 Full Record
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Watson, Ritchie Devon. "'The Difference of Race': Antebellum Race Mythology and the Development of Southern Nationalism." Southern Literary Journal 35, no. 1 (2003): 1-13. Journal Article Secondary 2003 Full Record
Blight, David W. "Lincoln on the Moral Bankruptcy of Slavery: Inside the Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858." Magazine of History 21, no. 4 (October 2007): 56. Journal Article Secondary 2007 Full Record
Fehrenbacher, Don E."Lincoln, Douglas, and the ‘Freeport Question’." American Historical Review 66, no. 3 (April 1961): 599-617. Journal Article Secondary 1961 Full Record
Fehrenbacher, Don E. "The Origins and Purpose of Lincoln's ‘House-Divided’ Speech." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 46, no. 4 (March 1960): 615-643. Journal Article Secondary 1960 Full Record
Heckman, Richard Allen. Lincoln vs. Douglas: The Great Debates Campaign. Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1967. Book Secondary 1967 Full Record
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Lincoln, Abraham, and Stephen Arnold Douglas. The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858.  Edited by Robert Walter Johannsen. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965. Book Primary 1965 Full Record
Lincoln, Abraham. Lincoln: His Words and His World. Edited by Robert L. Polley. Waukesha, WI:  Country Beautiful Foundation for Hawthorn Books, 1965. Book Primary 1965 Full Record
Golden, Renny, and Michael McConnell. Sanctuary: The New Underground Railroad. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1986. Book Secondary 1986 Full Record
Greenwood, Barbara, and Heather Collins. The Last Safe House: A Story of the Underground Railroad. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1998. Book Secondary 1998 Full Record
Griffler, Keith P. Front Line of Freedom: African Americans and the Forging of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio Valley. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
Keller, Allan. Thunder at Harper's Ferry. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1958. Book Secondary 1958 Full Record
Kutler, Stanley I. The Dred Scott Decision: Law or Politics?. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. Book Secondary 1967 Full Record
Clinton, Catherine. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
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Fehrenbacher, Don Edward. The Dred Scott Case, Its Significance in American Law and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Book Secondary 1978 Full Record
Ehrlich, Walter. They Have No Rights: Dred Scott's Struggle for Freedom. Contributions in Legal Studies. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1979. Book Secondary 1979 Full Record
Finkelman, Paul, ed. His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995. Book Secondary 1995 Full Record
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Hearn, Chester G. Six Years of Hell: Harpers Ferry During the Civil War. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. Book Secondary 1996 Full Record
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Horton,  James Oliver and Lois E. Horton. Slavery and the Making of America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Book Secondary 2005 Full Record
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McPherson, James M. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. The Oxford History of the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Book Secondary 1988 Full Record
Nelson, Truman John. The Old Man: John Brown at Harper's Ferry. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Book Secondary 1973 Full Record
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Renehan, Edward J., Jr. The Secret Six: The True Tale of the Men Who Conspired with John Brown. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1997. Book Secondary 1995 Full Record
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Rossbach, Jeffery S. Ambivalent Conspirators: John Brown, the Secret Six, and a Theory of Slave Violence. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982. Book Secondary 1982 Full Record
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Simon, James F. Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. Book Secondary 2006 Full Record
Smith, Merritt Roe. Harpers Ferry Armory and the New Technology: The Challenge of Change. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1977. Book Secondary 1977 Full Record
Warch, Richard, and Jonathan F. Fanton. John Brown. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1973. Book Secondary 1973 Full Record
Hagedorn, Ann. Beyond the River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Book Secondary 2002 Full Record
Parker, John P. His Promised Land: The Autobiography of John P. Parker, Former Slave and Conductor on the Underground Railroad.  Edited by Stuart Sprague. New York: Norton, 1996. Book Primary 1996 Full Record
Frost, Karolyn Smardz. I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. Book Secondary 2007 Full Record
Tobin, Jacqueline, and Raymond G. Dobard. Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 1999. Book Secondary 1999 Full Record
Blockson, Charles L. African Americans in Pennsylvania: Above Ground and Underground: An Illustrated Guide. Harrisburg, PA: RB Books, 2001. Book Secondary 2001 Full Record
Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1987. Book Secondary 1987 Full Record
Blockson, Charles L. The Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Jacksonville, NC: Flame International, 1981. Book Secondary 1981 Full Record

Bradley, David. The Chaneysville Incident: A Novel. New York: Harper & Row, 1981.

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Bramble, Linda. Black Fugitive Slaves in Early Canada. Vanwell History Project Series. St. Catharines, ON: Vanwell Pub. Co., 1988. Book Secondary 1988 Full Record
Brandt, Nat. The Town that Started the Civil War. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990. Book Secondary 1990 Full Record

Buckmaster, Henrietta. Let My People Go: The Story of the Underground Railroad and the Growth of the Abolition Movement. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959.

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Buckmaster, Henrietta. Flight to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad. New York: Crowell, 1958. Book Secondary 1958 Full Record
Burke, Henry Robert and Dick Croy. The River Jordan: A True Story of the Underground Railroad. Marietta, OH: Watershed Books, 1999. Book Secondary 1999 Full Record
Calarco, Tom. The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
Chadwick, Bruce. Traveling the Underground Railroad : A Visitor's Guide to More than 300 Sites. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Pub. Group, 1999. Book Secondary 1999 Full Record
Chiaverini, Jennifer. The Runaway Quilt: An Elm Creek Quilts Novel. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Book Secondary 2002 Full Record
Coddon, Karin S., ed. Runaway Slaves. San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 2004. Book Primary 2004 Full Record
Collison, Gary Lee. Shadrach Minkins: From Fugitive Slave to Citizen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Book Secondary 1997 Full Record
DeRamus, Betty. Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad. New York: Atria Books, 2005. Book Secondary 2005 Full Record
DeVita, James. A Midnight Cry: The Underground Railroad to Freedom, a Musical. Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Pub., 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
Drew, Benjamin. The Refugee: Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada: Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored People of Upper Canada. Honolulu: University Press of the Pacific, 2004. Book Primary 2004 Full Record
Eisan, Frances K. Saint Or Demon? The Legendary Delia Webster Opposing Slavery. New York: Pace University Press, 1998. Book Secondary 1998 Full Record
Franklin, John Hope, and Alfred A. Moss. From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans. 7th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1994. Book Secondary 1994 Full Record
Frazier, Harriet C. Runaway and Freed Missouri Slaves and Those Who Helped Them, 1763-1865. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
Glenelg. Broken Shackles: Old Man Henson from Slavery to Freedom. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2001. Book Primary 2001 Full Record
Haley, Alex. A Different Kind of Christmas. New York: Doubleday, 1988. Book Secondary 1988 Full Record
Hansen, Ellen. The Underground Railroad: Life on the Road to Freedom. Perspectives on History Series. Lowell, MA: Discovery Enterprises, 1993. Book Secondary 1993 Full Record
Heidish, Marcy. A Woman Called Moses: A Novel Based on the Life of Harriet Tubman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976. Book Secondary 1976 Full Record
Hudson, J. Blaine. Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2006. Book Tertiary 2006 Full Record
Hudson, J. Blaine. Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2002. Book Secondary 2002 Full Record
Humez, Jean McMahon. Harriet Tubman: The Life and the Life Stories. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. Book Secondary 2003 Full Record
Kashatus, William C. In Pursuit of Freedom: Teaching the Underground Railroad. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005. Book Secondary 2005 Full Record
Kashatus, William C. Just Over the Line: Chester County and the Underground Railroad. West Chester, PA: Chester County Historical Society, 2002. Book Secondary 2002 Full Record
King, Roger A. The Underground Railroad in Orange County, NY: The Silent Rebellion. Monroe, NY: Library Research Associates, 1999. Book Secondary 1999 Full Record

Klees, Emerson. Underground Railroad Tales: With Routes through the Finger Lakes Region. Rochester, NY: Friends of the Finger Lakes Pub, 1997.

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Lansana, Quraysh Ali. They Shall Run: Harriet Tubman Poems. Chicago: Third World Press, 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero. New York: Ballantine, 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
Lowry, Beverly. Harriet Tubman: Imagining a Life: A Biography. New York: Doubleday, 2007. Book Secondary 2007 Full Record
Ludwig, Charles. Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1975. Book Secondary 1975 Full Record
McGowan, James A. Station Master on the Underground Railroad: The Life and Letters of Thomas Garrett. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2005. Book Secondary 2005 Full Record
Mitchell, W. M. The Under-Ground Railroad. Westport, CT: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Book Secondary 1970 Full Record
Monfredo, Miriam Grace. North Star Conspiracy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. Book Secondary 1993 Full Record
Morgans, James Patrick. John Todd and the Underground Railroad: Biography of an Iowa Abolitionist. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2006. Book Secondary 2006 Full Record
Perrin, Pat. The Underground Railroad: Life on the Road to Freedom. Perspectives on History Series. 2nd ed. Carlisle, MA: Discovery Enterprises, 1999. Book Secondary 1999 Full Record
Peters, Pamela R. The Underground Railroad in Floyd County, Indiana. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2001. Book Secondary 2001 Full Record
Quinn, Angela M. The Underground Railroad and the Antislavery Movement in Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. Fort Wayne, IN: Arch Inc., 2001. Book Secondary 2001 Full Record
Smallwood, Thomas. A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man). Edited, annotated, and with an introduction by Richard Almonte. Toronto: Mercury Press, 2000. Book Primary 2000 Full Record
Stadelhofen, Marcie Miller. The Freedom Side. Syracuse, NY: New Readers Press, 1982. Book Secondary 1982 Full Record
Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in New Jersey and New York. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2006. Book Secondary 2006 Full Record
Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Delaware, Maryland, and West Virginia. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
Switala, William J. Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 2001. Book Secondary 2001 Full Record
Tobin, Jacqueline, and Hettie Jones. From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2007. Book Secondary 2007 Full Record
Turner, Glennette Tilley. The Underground Railroad in Illinois. Glen Ellyn, IL: Newman Educational Pub., 2001. Book Secondary 2001 Full Record
Watts, Ralph M. "History of the Underground Railroad in Mechanicsburg." Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly 43 (1934): 209-254. Journal Article Secondary 1934 Full Record
Zabel, Darcy. The (Underground) Railroad in African American Literature. African American Literature and Culture. Vol. 6. New York: P. Lang, 2004. Book Secondary 2004 Full Record
Brown, Maxine F. The Role of Free Blacks in Indiana's Underground Railroad: The Case of Floyd, Harrison, and Washington Counties. Indianapolis: Indiana Deptartment of Natural Resources, 2001. Book Secondary 2001 Full Record