Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The “Heritage Quilt” shines a light on a Black and Creole community in southwest Louisiana Top 3 playlist Black people have ...

Gee’s Bend is known as living history due to the region’s generations of Black female quilters. The quilts, initially created for comfort and warmth, have become a symbol of Black survival and civil ...

The Goodman-LeGrand Museum in Tyler currently has a showcase of many old quilts, but a couple are from the house itself.

History is kept alive in many ways—through historical novels, ballads, folklore passed down through the generations. For one group of Arlington seniors, local history of the now closed Lee Center is ...

While most wives give their husbands shirts and shaving lotion, Teddy's wife Barbara recently gave him generations of family history stitched into a patchwork quilt. With roots reaching back more than ...

Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International Museum at Balboa Park. The fabrics, the patterns, the designs all reveal ...

The African American Quilt Circle of San Antonio is preserving personal, political, and historical narratives through the ancestral practice of quiltmaking. “There’s a determination not to tell the ...

The Framingham History Center is hosting a "Stitching Revolution" event on June 28-29, featuring quilting, lectures and 18th-century dance. Attendees can participate in community quilting and ...

BENNINGTON, VT. — While U.S. troops remain in Afghanistan after 15 years, and the global reach of World War II's six years was unprecedented in scope, the American Civil War remains the nation's ...

Black people have traditionally used quilts to tell their stories. Harriett Powers, for example, born into slavery in 1837, created the much-lauded “Bible Quilt” that hangs in the National Museum of ...