George Washington Carver (1864-1943) started his life as a slave and ended it as a respected and world-renowned agricultural chemist. Born in Kansas Territory near Diamond Grove, Mo., during the bloody struggle between free-soilers and slaveholders,...

George Washington Carver, an undersized, softspoken genius, achieved fame as an agricultural chemist, botanist, educator, and inventor, though he refused to patent or capitalize on most of his innovations. His study of peanuts and peanut products,...

George Washington Carver devoted his life to research projects connected primarily with southern agriculture. The products he derived from the peanut and the soybean revolutionized the economy of the South by liberating it from an excessive dependence...

1861?-1943 American Chemist and Agronomist George Washington Carver is credited with the development of innovative crop-rotation methods that preserved soils and allowed sustainable levels of increased agricultural productivity. During a long and...

George Washington Carver. American Botanist1865-1943 George Washington Carver was born in 1865, near the end of the Civil War (1861-65). His mother was a slave on the Moses and Susan Carver farm close to Diamond Grove, Missouri. Carver...

The conservationist agricultural practices developed by George Washington Carver at the beginning of the twentieth century increased agricultural sustainability for poor African-American farmers in the U.S. Deep South. An expert in revitalizing soil,...

George Washington Carver (July 12, 1864 – January 5, 1943)[1] was an American botanical researcher and agronomy educator who worked in agricultural extension at the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, teaching former slaves farming techniques...

Supporters of a Democratic congressman charged with bribery and money laundering harkened to their civil rights days on Wednesday as they denounced the allegations against U.S. Rep. William Jefferson.The group, including ministers and the president of the local chapter of the NAACP, alleged the 16-count...

Supporters of a Democratic congressman charged with bribery and money laundering harkened to their civil rights days on Wednesday as they denounced the allegations against U.S. Rep. William Jefferson.The group, including ministers and the president of the local chapter of the NAACP, alleged the 16-count...

As a child, Ruth DeYoung Kohler loved taking family road trips across Wisconsin, her parents stopping wherever the mood struck."Sometimes, we would end up at a personal museum in somebody's home or looking at a community of scarecrows in a field, or seeing a wide...

It's lovely to visit a garden on a spring day, surrendering to the scents, colors, and the sounds of birds chirping or the breeze rustling a dogwood tree heavy with blossoms.But there's also something to be said for taking a close look, guided by an...