Pulitzer Prize winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather than pens. This book, part of the multivolume series of the International Quilt Study Center collections, recovers a swath of that lost history and shows us some of America s treasured material culture as it was pieced and stitched into place. American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870 1940 examines the period s quilts from both an artistic and a historical perspective. From pieced block to Crazy...
Pulitzer Prize winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely becaus...
