Multiple students reported feeling humiliated after racist jokes followed a Virginia high school history lesson involving cotton, a local NAACP leader said. As part of a Dec. 5 discussion on the ...

The situation unfolded last Thursday during a U.S. history lesson about the invention of the cotton gin and slavery. Loudoun ...

The gin made cotton profitable which was a boon to the ... although he did make some and became famous for his labor-saving invention. He would go on to pioneer the use of interchangeable parts ...

On June 20, 1793, Eli Whitney, who had graduated from Yale the previous year, wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, requesting a patent for his new invention, the cotton gin. The gin ...

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 Virginia teacher came fire after having students handle raw cotton during a history lesson that touched on the invention of the cotton gin and enslavement.

INDEX: Forces For Change MARINE TECHNOLOGY By the 15th century a number of important changes to ship design had occurred making long journeys across the ocean possible; the first ...

Tliis invention (by Benjamin Jackman, of Louisville, Ky.) relates to a machine designed to be attached to or connected with the flue of a cotton gin for the purpose of cleansing the cotton ...