Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Many people learned of the famous Silk Road in their school’s history, literature or social studies text books. Traveler and trader Marco Polo described and popularized the ancient trade route within ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Cotton waiting to be picked sits in a field in Florence, Alabama October 23, 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo May ...

Cotton Textiles in Global History / Giorgio Riello and Prasannan Parthasarathi -- World Areas of Cotton Textile Manufacturing -- Cotton Textiles in the Indian Subcontinent, 1200-1800 / Prasannan ...

EMPIRE OF COTTON: A Global History, by Sven Beckert. Alfred A. Knopf, 615 pp., $35. Even if you read "Empire of Cotton" in silk pajamas, you will find yourself in "the fabric of our lives" soon enough ...

Cotton, colonialism, and social history in Sub-Saharan Africa / Allen Isaacman and Richard Roberts -- Cotton policies and African realities -- Note on cotton and climate : a colonial conundrum / ...

A worker wades through cotton last year at a ginning mill in Pilibanga, Rajasthan, India. The country was a key cotton location in its early history and again today ...

Cotton, native to both the Eastern and Western hemispheres, is the most widely cultivated fiber in the world. The leading cotton producers are China, the United States, India and Pakistan. Fossilized ...

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is one of college football's most iconic matchups, and it has taken place in Dallas nearly every season since 1914. which now seats over 92,000 fans and is surrounded by the State Fair of Texas, the ...