Two Illinois high school teachers created an interactive curriculum that traces the Trail of Tears through southern parts of their state. Stacie Tefft, one of the curriculum’s creators, stressed ...

Nearly 200 years later, visitors can follow in their footsteps along a new trail map of North Carolina sites. "You can step into the same landscape that they were saying goodbye to," archaeologist ...

The Trail of Tears is the shorthand used for the series of forced displacements of more than 60,000 Indigenous people of the five tribes between 1830 and 1850 and extending up through the 1870s.