American oilman Lyman Stewart embodied the uniquely American paradoxes of what would become capitalist Christian fundamentalism and the prosperity gospel.

Prisons have been controversial since their beginnings in the late 1700s — why do they keep failing to live up to expectations?

How climate change is represented in popular media allows us to avoid the complex, interconnected roles humans have played to create it.

Offhand references to St. Patrick’s Day showcase broader humor, humanity, and history in the American Prison Newspapers collection.

This selection of stories focuses on prison and mass incarceration in the US, which has the highest rate of imprisonment in the world.

Dogs can use their superb sense of smell to identify disease in human patients. What’s keeping them from using this ability in the healthcare industry?

Thoreau's time at Walden Pond has provided substantial data for scientists monitoring the effects of a warming climate on the area's plant life.

Join us Wednesday, March 23, for a free online event. Editor Morgan Godvin in conversation with penal historian Ashley Rubin.

Well-researched stories from Pro Publica, Smithsonian, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Everybody remembers that the Ides of March was the day Julius Caesar was assassinated. But what does it mean, and why that day?