Quilting a Nation

We were just notified that the quilts created by our design teams have been selected by New Orleans. Our hard work, attention to historic d...

fighting over kansas nebraska slave rights picture of nebraska picture of kansas Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler An 1856...

The Anaconda Plan involved controlling the Mississippi River and blockading the ocean from the south so that they wouldn't be able to t...

This painting was done by Conrad Chapman. Conrad was born in Washington, DC in 18...

Hutchinson Family Singers were a 19th-century American family singing group who sang about political causes in four-part harmony . The gr...

1837-38 was a huge smallpox epidemic. It started on a large boat and when it went into port the small towns quickly caught the deadly disea...

buffalo soldier in battle ths is a comon man that is going to be recrooted as a buffalo soldier a new group of sodiers are riding to the ba...

in This 1856 map shows slave states (grey), free states (red), and US territories (green) with Kansas in center (white). Forcing Slavery Dow...

In the 1820s, genteel English-styled ballads were popular in urban areas. Many of the songwriters, however, were looking for something new, ...

This machine was designed to test electrostatic toys. Josiah Willard Gibbs’s work in Thermodynamics helped to launch the area of Physical Ch...

Fredrick Douglass Fredrick Douglass was a slave in. He escaped to freedom on September 3, 1836. After he escaped he became an Abolishonist....

The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1883, but the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (the above picture) c...