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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Loudoun County teacher has come under fire after having students handle a raw piece of cotton during a history lesson that ...

In 1811, Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin for separating cotton fibers from seeds. This device was built in 1793 and helped cotton become a profitable export crop in the southern United States, as ...

Some families in Loudoun County, Virginia, are outraged after a high school history class in which the teacher told the ...

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 ...

According to biography.com, after a winter of work, Whitney presented the cotton gin (“gin” is short for engine) and realized he’d tapped into something big. His invention produced more ...

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 ...