The mother claims her student felt so uncomfortable that they and two other students went to the principal's office to ...

If you went to elementary school in the United States, you no doubt learned about Eli Whitney’s cotton gin as an example of how the industrial revolution took previously manual processes and ...

click image for close-up In October of 1793, Eli Whitney sent a drawing of his new invention, the cotton gin, to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in application for a patent. Jefferson replied ...

A Union County mother said her Porter Ridge Middle School student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the ...

The Hutchinson News reports that the southern Kansas cotton gin formerly known as High Plains Cotton could see its second biggest ginning year. Its first was in 2007, when it ginned 24,000 bales.

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton fiber from its seeds, was merely a motor for a global economic machine. Slavery was its fuel. Many stakeholders ...

This tribute honors John Edmonston, a community leader who took over his family's cotton gin at 21, shaping its legacy with ...

A North Carolina mother says her middle school student was asked to pick cotton during a lesson about the Industrial ...