George Washington Carver was a prominent American scientist and inventor in the early 1900s. Carver developed hundreds of products using the peanut, sweet potatoes and soybeans. He also was a ...

The classic story about George Washington Carver is that he popularized ... McMurry wrote in her 1981 biography of Carver: Despite later claims that he almost singlehandedly transformed the ...

Linda McMurry, author of the biography George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol, writes that Carver was ubiquitous in his time, and one of the dozen or so most famous people in America.

There are several biographies of George Washington Carver in print, but this book, although highly specialized and detailed, would also serve for those who haven’t read one. Mark D. Hersey ...

George Washington Carver. . . .peanuts, wasn’t it? Somewhere in Alabama. Black man? Didn’t he invent peanut butter? From an interracial, homoerotic love affair, to constant fights with a ...

Just months after he died in 1943, the George Washington Carver National Monument was founded and in July 1953 when it was officially dedicated, it became the first monument dedicated to an ...

Linda McMurry, author of the biography George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol, writes that Carver was ubiquitous in his time, and one of the dozen or so most famous people in America.