There are rare records of women’s voices in the 17th and 18th centuries, especially ordinary middle and lower class women. An exhibition at the University of Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum is ...

From 1942 to 1945, the factory workers of the Whitman candy empire in Philadelphia helped ship well over 6 million pounds of free chocolate to soldiers stationed overseas. Tucked inside their ...

Describes the samplers stitched by girls in colonial America and explains what these samplers tell about the lives of their makers. Includes simple projects. https ...

The vast majority of producers making use of samples today do so in software. Replaying, processing and manipulating recorded sounds is so easy in modern DAWs that we take it for granted – but this ...

More than 150 years after the last of them received its final stitches, the Virginia samplers lining the walls of the Dewitt Wallace Gallery have earned the right to look a little the worse for wear.

Kaffee Burger in Mitte recently hosted a book launch for Berlin Sampler, a book that traces over 100 years of musical works in Berlin and the events that shaped them. Berlin Sampler touches on ...

Ever imagine you could go back in time, maybe to that storied revolutionary time when the United States was born out of discontent and a desire for liberty? To be there and bear witness to the ...