The COVID-19 pandemic put food workers in danger of contracting infections, with few, if any, consequences for the industries' failures to protect them.

HBO's The Gilded Age has done its homework on Black History, creating a character based upon real life wealthy Black women of the time.

The Chicana feminist movement was initially met with resistance from within, and racism from without.

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.