The American Experience: Hearts And Hands

documentary · history

Here is an episode of The American Experience from December 1988, the PBS history series hosted by David McCullough involving cultural and societal life. In this episode, we look at the life of New England women of the 1820s and 1830s who have a specialty in bed quilting, and then later on, look at how the westward expansion later that century affected their arts through natural and societal customs which they encountered.