Program at Naper Settlement explores how messages conveyed through quilts guided runaway slaves through the Underground ...

PRAIRIE GROVE -- A collaboration between history, art and a local quilting shop recently provided Prairie Grove Junior High students hands-on learning as they did a "deep dive into the quilt codes" ...

Residents and guests at the Covenant Living Holmstad in Batavia learned about “Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on ...

Juneteenth, which commemorates June 19, 1865 — the day the last enslaved people in Texas were freed — was observed this week. But the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park is continuing the ...

For Edith Edmunds, the art of quilt making is inextricably linked to the Black struggle for freedom. That's why she plans to be sewing on Juneteenth. "It's what I love to do," she told NPR in a phone ...

RACINE - All travelers need maps and to plan their journeys to avoid known and unforeseen dangers. And runaway slaves, more than any other travelers in the 19th century United States, needed to plan ...