The Lebanon County Historical Society recently displayed a dozen of the numerous pre-1970 vintage quilts in its collection.

The setting for their flights was what became known as the “Blue Highway,” which ran up and down the Eastern Seaboard and ...

Family heirlooms are the theme for this month’s column, including a fine example of an American ... irregular shapes. Such quilts were popular in the late 19th century, and yours is an ...

As with many other settlement schemes of the 19th century, this one ended in failure ... There is a scholarly discussion of how African Americans and mixed-race Americans responded to the Dred ...

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"Almost Unknown'' is based on Square’s interpretation of a 19th-century ... Afric-American Picture Gallery” was published in 1859 as a seven-part installment in the Anglo-African Magazine.

Mamadou Dia’s ‘Demba’ will be among the films screened at Washington University’s 19th Annual African ... which is sponsored by African & African American Studies and Film & Media Studies ...

The story of Redcliffe, the showcase plantation of 19th-century politician James Henry ... thousands of African American men, women and children enjoyed the benefits only a sound education can ...

ALBANY — New York State Museum archaeologists have spent the past few years studying artifacts and records to understand the lives of 19th century African American farmers in the Capital Region.

One of the genuine pleasures of teaching African-American Studies today is the ... Since the end of the 19th century, many Americans — especially in New England and the Midwest — have either ...

Yet it wouldn’t be fully told until decades later, through her quilts and the African American tradition of oral history, spread through generations of her family. Her message was to enslaved ...

The U.S. is the biggest single customer, with African-Americans accounting ... gushing out of the frontier. American distilling manuals from the early 19th century recommended ways Americans ...