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Polk's Fancy: Quiltmaking, Patriotism, and Gender in the Mexican War Era

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From Uncoverings 2006, Volume 27 of the Research Papers of the American Quilt Study Group

2006

By: Klassen, Teri

Teri Klassen is a doctoral student in the graduate program in Folklore at Indiana University in Bloomington. Her master's thesis is "Historical Ethnographies of Quiltmaking;' and she is interested in material culture, language, social history, mass art, and gender-especially as exemplified in quiltmaking and epistolary studies (postcard- and letter-writing). She has guest curated two quilt exhibits: Red, White and Blue Quilts at Fountain Square Mall in Bloomington and Quilts from Monroe County African-Americans at the Monroe County History Center. She has worked as a reporter, and she belongs to the American Quilt Study Group, Quilters Hall of Fame, Midwest Fabric Study Group, Indiana Heritage Quilt Show, and Bloomington Quilters Guild.

​When AQSG added Uncoverings articles to the Quilt Index, they omitted all the illustrations, for lack of permissions. Although the articles found in the QI (1980-2010, 2012-2016) lack illustrations, they link to quilts, essays, special collections, and documentation projects across the Quilt Index, introducing them to a wider audience. The permission issues have since been resolved and in 2024, AQSG completed adding all the Uncoverings volumes from 1980-2023 to the Digital Commons@University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They are completely searchable and include all the illustrations. You can find, Uncoverings 2006, Volume 27, at this link, https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/aqsg-uncoverings/34/.