If you don’t already have a pair of soft cotton leggings in your closet, prepare to invest. You'll love them as much as your spandex ones, since they're a wardrobe staple that personal trainers swear ...

Red Land Cotton got its start making high-quality bed linens from the co-founders' family cotton farm in Alabama. Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the American textile industry packed its bags ...

Sven Beckert is professor of American history at Harvard and author of Empire of Cotton: A Global History, just published by Alfred A. Knopf. The American Civil War is one of the best-researched ...

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One author boldly estimated that in 1862, fully 20 million people worldwide—one out of every 65 people alive—were involved in the cultivation of cotton or the production of cotton cloth. In England ...