What will we find metal detecting a random cotton field? Join Heath and Scott from the History Seekers team as they go in search of history. Will they uncover lost relics from undocumented Civil War ...

Boll weevil pest nearly wiped out North Carolina’s cotton crop in the 1920s. It was finally eradicated in 1980.

Slavery spread from the seaboard to some of the new western territories and states as new cotton fields were planted, and by 1830 it thrived in more than half the continent. Within 10 years after ...

The Revs. King James Underwood, Evelyn Burnett Underwood and Herbert "Hub" Burnett sat down for a Black History Month-themed chat, with Hub playing interviewer.

Swaying green cotton fields in Gokwe and Guruve as far as the eye can see is a clear testament to the country’s rich ...

When our Constitution was adopted, cotton, as an article of field culture and of trade, was unknown to the country. What if the products and exports of the Slave States had continued the same as ...

A recent investigation reveals that child exploitation and forced labor are being used to pick cotton on dozens of farms in India. This investigation adds to those in countries such as China, which is ...