Today's lighthearted Easter tradition traces its roots to the witch trials and conspiracy theories of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Freeing a prisoner—a gesture of generosity and benevolence—may have been a way to bring together a fractured spiritual community.

A quick look at poetry from a 1972 newspaper published in the Arkansas Cummins Unit prison.

Prison censorship comes in many forms; its subversion comes in even more.

Through the lens of chronemics, we can examine why time appears to have a different essence at, well, different times.

Well-researched stories from Vox, Nursing Clio, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Published in Sunfighter in the summer of 1975, "Nothing is More Precious than Freedom..." holds obvious allure for those who are incarcerated.

These collective rituals of death brought meaning and identity to urban, working-class youth.

Even when people think wasting food is bad, they tend to toss out as much (or more) food than they eat. Can that behavior be changed?

A shortage of coined currency led Pennsylvania to begin using paper money in the 1720s. The British didn't like it, but the colonists did.