There seems to be a strange, unspoken idea floating around in 21st-century discourse that history, or at least meaningful history, began around the year 1700 – or 1800, or in the most egregious cases, ...
When you think of fine art, you might think of oil paintings, bronze sculptures or gravity-defying glasswork. You might not think of a colorful quilt, fuzzy felted object or embroidery, perhaps ...