American Experience · SEASON 1
Hearts and Hands
Episode 12 · 1988-12-20

- Documentary
Episode overview
The design and art of quilting yields intimate clues about the lives of 19th century women, who stitched their personal and political stories into these artifacts of history.
55 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. The Great San Francisco Earthquake1988-10-04
2. Radio Bikini1988-10-11
3. Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo1988-10-18
4. Eric Sevareid's Not So Wild A Dream1988-10-25
5. The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter1988-11-01
6. Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?1988-11-08
7. Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis Up Close1988-11-15
8. Geronimo and the Apache Resistance1988-11-22
9. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Revisited1988-11-29
10. That Rhythm, Those Blues1988-12-06
11. The Radio Priest1988-12-13
12. Hearts and Hands1988-12-20
13. Views of a Vanishing Frontier1988-12-27
14. Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings1989-01-03
15. The World That Moses Built1989-01-10
16. Sins of Our Mothers1989-01-17