"Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War"

To mark the 150th anniversary of the nation’s most divisive conflict, the New-York Historical Society welcomes this traveling exhibit from the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Massachusetts. The roughly 130-item collection includes an 1867 piece representing the resolution of the war by Brooklyn’s Lucinda Ward Honstain, the wife of a major in the 132nd New York Infantry, and a selection of needlework stitched by female supporters of both the Confederate and Union armies.