This instructional guide is the first in a series of curricular content related to the Reveal Digital American Prison Newspaper collection on JSTOR.

Read on, but beware, these tales of spine-tingling ghosts and eerie spirits...

We all ponder them when standing in the cereal aisle of the grocery store, but why do we even have nutrition labels on our foods?

Song sharks have been a problem for aspiring lyricists nearly as long as there’s been a music industry.

Unofficial cookbooks—handwritten recipes passed from kitchen to kitchen—provided their owners with social and cultural capital within the Soviet system.

The value placed on literacy has changed over time, shifting from a nineteenth-century moral imperative to a twentieth-century production necessity.

Though her writing career opened in an inauspicious manner, Edna St. Vincent Millay became the first woman to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

The migration of Asian people—from India, from China, from Japan—to South America and the Caribbean began as early as the sixteenth century.

How marketing made guns a fundamental element of contemporary boyhood.

How did the campaign behind the Partnership for a Drug Free America’s iconic commercials develop, and why were its products so memorable?