Kids News & Current Events
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
Roughly a decade after the end of the American Revolution, a young Yale graduate by the name of Eli Whitney found himself stranded in Georgia. Unemployed, broke, and desperate to find work, Whitney met Catherine Greene, a local plantation owner struggling with the...
The Origins of Flag Day
This June 14 will be the 106th celebration of the United States flag. For more than a century, Americans have been honoring the nation’s symbol of freedom. But it wasn’t always the flag we know today. During the American Revolution, which started in 1775, the...











