Brackman (Civil War Women) gloriously honors the Civil War without bellicosity: the renowned quilt historian developed 50 quilt blocks with narratives. Each block, featuring brown-toned reds (as if ...

Behind-the-scenes work often goes unrecognized. So it’s little wonder that the fiery tactics of abolitionist John Brown, the military recruiting efforts of James Lane and the freedom cries of ...

It’s an odd match – Jayhawk basketball, quilters and shoes for needy kids. Last year, Barbara Brackman and the Kaw Valley Quilt Guild sold a shoe-motif quilt on the Internet auction site eBay, raising ...

Patterns of Progress: Quilts in the Machine Age examines quilts as clues to women's lives, especially women who lived and worked in the West, and to the changes they experienced because of the ...

"Partisan Pieces: Quilts of Political and Patriotic Persuasion" at the National Archives show the politics of their 19th century creators. But can quilts really tell ...

The Johnson County Museum's Common Threads exhibition is a way into the area's history, but also connects women across time and space. Quilting is a pastime of paradoxes. It’s at once considered an ...