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“Why I Love History”

Saturday, March 25, 2017, I was an invited speaker at the annual banquet of the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. …

This post originally appeared on the Anabaptist Historians blog on March 23, 2017. A sign at a recent rally against the Trump …

When Charlie Hardy suggested I collaborate with him on a class using old oral history interviews he recorded with African Americans who …

I was snuggled up under an afghan, home sick from school. That happened sometimes when I was in kindergarten—my daughter’s age now—when …

This week the Quilt Alliance launches our new website, a project to which I’ve devoted much time and energy during this past year. …

We’re one week in to the second iteration of the course Great Migration and Digital Storytelling, trying to figure out what went …

Sadly, I never met Doug Tompkins. By the time I was deep into my research into Amish quilts, he was deep into …

Like most first time quiltmakers, when I first began making a quilt—one summer vacation as a teenager—I turned to tried and true …

Back in the boom days of quilt collecting—the 1970s and 1980s in particular—an important rule regarding the dates of “good” quilts developed: …

It’s October, and our students in HIS 601/HON 452 are continuing their progress on our Goin’ North project focused on the first Great …