Preserving the Stories of America

Part 6 traces institutional attitudes toward quilts as objects, rationales for their selection, and the public response to their exhibition.

Losing Ground is a psychological portrait of an Iowa family facing the loss of a family farm during the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. The Farm Crisis was a difficult period when…

This film documents sacred harp singing, a 200 year old tradition of religious singing which survives today in the rural South.

The quilt is the perfect test case for a dozen theories about what makes art. The art vs. craft debate

Selections from the film "A Singing Stream" with performances of "Jezebel" (Fleming, Tony, Claude Landis with nephew Ken Daniel) and "Going Up To Meet Him" (Big John Landis and…