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 ...

The history of gin is one of highs and lows, but it's also the history of Britain. Since arriving in their country in early 17th Century, gin has been a staple drink of the British. Gin has seen ...

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 ...

In fact, by the year 1720, some experts estimate that as many as a quarter of the households in London frequently produced ...

Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, which easily separated cotton ... the second largest forced migration in America’s history. To feed “King Cotton,” more than a million African ...

The true history of the lynching that begat the Civil Rights Movement began with the Mississippi gubernatorial election that ...

He died in 1955 and we keep revisiting his tale, reckoning with its tormented history. Is it because his murder was ... tied ...

A penny gin glass bought at an antiques fair. This glass dates from the 1700s when there was concern at the levels of drunkeness among the working classes, most famously depicted in Hogarth's 'Gin ...

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The cooperative of farmers and textile producers wants to jump-start flax production to provide more linen clothing as an ...

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