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 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 ...

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) confirmed Thursday, that during the lesson, a teacher at Riverside High School passed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...