In 1968, the Virginia Military Institute took a monumental step by becoming the last public higher education institution in ...

Everyone in the room wore white linen gloves lest the oils from their hands change history. In the world of centuries old hand made quilts small things make a big difference. Purple fades to brown ...

COLUMBIANA, Alabama -- The Friends of the Columbiana Library are organizing a celebration of quilts on Nov. 2 with a walking tour through the city that will visit historical places and view ...

Patricia A. Turner is a folklorist on the faculty of UC Davis and the author of "Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters." The e-mail came with a puzzling message in the ...

With the passing of the first 10 years of this century, it’s easy to find themes that shaped our lives. From the way the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that changed all of us to the economic ...

Think of football in Croatia and you think of Boban, Šuker and Modrić, and clubs such as Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split. But the history of football in Pula is just as colourful and, given the city’s ...

Students at Carnegie Elementary School, 4309 E. 56th St., learned to piece together the past with a craft used by Oklahoma pioneers. Fifth-grade art students made three centennial quilts to depict ...