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" ...

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 ...

Feb. 22—It's amazing the things that can be said with a piece of fabric — a lesson that was taken to heart by members of the Madison County Historical Society after a presentation from Colonel Judy ...

When Sharon Tindall looks at a quilt, she sees more than just stitching and cloth. She sees an ingeniously coded path to freedom. Tindall has studied the theory of quilt codes, the idea that slaves on ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - If you're going to to take a road trip, you just pull up a map on your phone. Ten years ago, you used a map and road signs. But how did escaped slaves find their way to freedom ...

Residents and guests at the Covenant Living Holmstad in Batavia learned about “Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad” during a presentation last month by Aurora ...

As a hobby, quilting is often about remembering loved ones. Today almost a million Americans make some kind of quilt, including replica Revolutionary War quilts, and, increasingly Underground Railroad ...