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 ...

Beverly artist Dorothy Straughter’s quilts evoke painful and often ignored historical realities related to slavery, the ...

A group of Hampton Roads quilt makers is using needle and thread to honor the 100th anniversary of Black History Month. At the Chesapeake Central Library, 100 quilts are on display, each telling a ...

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 ...

LOWELL—Quilts are more than blankets under which to snuggle on a cold autumn or winter night; they can be works of art. "Today, quilters create a vast array of work technically called 'quilts' that ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Two African American quilt makers, China and Mary Ann Pettway, from Gee's Bend, Alabama, speak of growing up during the Civil ...

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 ...