Second Chance Month is new, but concerns about job prospects, losing the right to vote, and high recidivism rates for the formerly incarcerated are not.

In the early twentieth century, dance marathons were an entire industry—and a surprisingly hazardous business.

Medical neglect, food injustice, and mental health woes serve as the creative inspiration for poetry. Plus, how many days of work does it take to buy a bra?

Foreigners fighting for Ukraine may call to mind the International Brigades that fought in defense of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.

Published in the East Village from 1968 to 1975, Adventures in Poetry features poems by New York School poets Anne Waldman, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, Bernadette Mayer, and more.

Well-researched stories from Salon, The New Yorker, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

In the years following World War II, American and European food scientists hoped to feed the world with common pond scum supplemented with plastics.

Drugs, drug-themed poetry, and more drugs in the American Prison Newspapers collection.

Despite claims of precision strikes and the proliferation of smart bombs, the number of civilians killed in war appears staggeringly high.

Portia K. Maultsby documents the course of African American music, tracing the histories of the sounds alongside the histories of the people who made them.