American Quilts in the Modern Age, 1870-1940Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich has remarked, Much of the social history of early America has been lost to us precisely because women were expected to use needles rather than pens. This book, part of the multivolume series of the International Quilt Study Center collections, recovers a swath of that lost history and shows us some of Americas treasured material culture as it was pieced and stitched into place. American Quilts in