There is a book out called Quilting 101 and this site is going through the chapters one by one. The first one is History which is kinda interesting since it does not talk about just the US but many countries, and the second chapter is on all types of definations. Thought you might like. So here is the addy for the introduction page.

http://quiltingguide.blogspot.com/2008/07/introduction.html

Thanks.