In his new novel “The Underground Railroad,” Colson Whitehead reimagines a sick and savage period in American history and proves once again that fine fiction immersed in historical facts can often be ...

Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad is the newest Oprah's Book Club selection. "I think there's no better book for a time such as this," Oprah said on CBS This Morning. The novels of Colson ...

Welcome to this year’s edition of the Railroad Financial Desk Book. Each year we try our best to take a look back and a look forward to see if we can discern what the tea leaves have in store for the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The novel has earned starred pre-publication reviews from Publisher's Weekly, ...

Although Cynthia Ogorek has spent her entire life within a mile of the Indiana/Illinois border, the historian and author found she had a lot to learn about the Calumet Region. Ogorek’s post-college ...

The calendar year hasn’t even slipped into September, and Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad” is already being talked about as the book of the year (and that’s with a slew of big books ...

It's hard to list influential books of 2016 without mentioning The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead. The book paints a portrait of slavery and American history by following Cora, a slave ...

The book, “A History of the Underground Railroad in Decatur County,” will be officially available to the public June 14 during a kickoff event at Art on the Square Art Gallery in Greensburg. The ...

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Certain places in Pennsylvania were hotbeds of ante-bellum social activism, and a new book makes a case for ranking Harrisburg right up there with Philadelphia. In "Biography of an Antislavery City: ...

Here’s a look at what’s new on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list… 'O' power: Oprah Winfrey may no longer have her talk show as a megaphone, and she may take a more leisurely approach these days to ...

The first time a character addresses the question in Colson Whitehead's "The Underground Railroad," it struck me as a mic drop. When a runaway slave asks a man helping him to freedom who built the ...