John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

Ben Pearson, who was born at Paron in Saline County in 1898, became known as the Father of Modern Archery. In the 1920s, Pearson made his first bow. He finished next-to-last at the 1926 state archery ...

I was born in 1967, during the height of the civil rights movement in the countryside of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a small town in the heart of the Mississippi Delta. One of the persons that I came to ...

Xu Yulan, a farmer from Central China's Henan province, holds cotton she collected on Wednesday at Xinhu Farm in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of Northwest China. [Gao Xiong / for China Daily] ...

Every fall, Yang Qizhi treks thousands of miles from Henan province to the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region to pick cotton. For the past eight years, the 52-year-old has earned about 13,000 yuan ...