Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American “crazy quilt,” a porcelain night light, an Early American pattern glass carafe, an aeronautical school ...

As they set about making her wedding quilt, they laugh, reminisce about past loves and offer advice to their young charge. This leisurely movie is well acted and is good looking, but it does lack ...

Show quilts were made from the early 19th-century onward with a good many being crazy quilts ... Signature quilts, album quilts, Amish quilts and African-American quilts round out the show at the ...

For the people in the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland, that skill reconciles years of history and encourages the bridge between function and artistry. "With African American quilts ...

Replaying the tariff wars of the 19th century could restore the status quo of American dominance. But this, too, is an illusion. The privileges of historic empires cannot be restored simply by ...

A larger-than-life bust of Mahatma Gandhi has been unveiled at the Anglo-Boer War Museum in the Free State province of South Africa, where apartheid legislation banned Indians for over a century.

WASHINGTON ‒ Adam Sanchez remembers tears streaming down a student’s face as his high school class left the lower level of the National Museum of African American History and Culture a few ...

As Miles Orvell writes in American Photography (2003): "Nature, in this 19th-Century context, was land to claim and defend in the name of the US government, it was a wild land to be exuberantly ...

A museum dedicated to the African-American history of Boston is now concerned about its future, as their federal grant has been cut. "If you look at the ground, you will see that the planks are ...

Some of Paris’ African American residents had actually wanted to immigrate to their ancestral continent, using Paris as a point of transit, the museum statement notes. But as Knock tells the AP ...