Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reveals some of the scenes that would have confronted escaped slaves as they journeyed north.

BOOKS
The Book of Circles: Visualizing Spheres of Knowledge is a compendium of circular infographics and designs created throughout centuries.
Subjects in an experiment on old books described aromas like chocolate, coffee, wood, and, in some cases, mothballs and fish.
We asked a handful of financial planners for the best books to seriously up your money game.
Many of the Wakefield twins' adventures are typical teenage stuff. Sometimes, though, the plotlines of the Sweet Valley High books were, in a word, bizarre.
It takes a truly gifted author to write verse as magical as the works of Dr. Seuss.
As described in his 1984 book 'Ninety-Nine Novels: The Best in English Since 1939.'
Here are some of the more bizarre Grimm tales that didn’t quite merit the Disney treatment.
The 165-year-old novel is "like seeing the workshop of a great writer,” according to one scholar. “We’re discovering the process of Whitman’s own discovery.”
Rather than promoting anarchy, it's boosting circulation.
The first of Maya Angelou’s seven autobiographies, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,' deals with weighty issues like rape, identity, and racism. When it came out in 1969, it was one of the first books to honestly depict the experiences of a black woman gr
A new book covers the often overlooked contributions of black cooks and chefs to American cuisine.