Project MUSE®: American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism - Latest Articles
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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism.daily12026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 13 (2003) through current issueLatest Articles: American Periodicals: A Journal of History & CriticismTWOProject MUSE®American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism1548-42381054-7479Latest articles in American Periodicals: A Journal of History & Criticism. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Pulp Fiction, Home Goods, and 1920s Cocktail Culture; or, Who was Shirley Paine?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979331
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In November 1927, Time magazine ran a short feature in its "Progress" section on a domestic novelty: the "portable bar." This was
a three-wheeled barrow of tea-wagon appearance, containing lock compartments for liquor, an ice receptacle, niches for bottles, glasses, icepicks, opener, knives, spoons; a cedar drawer for 500 cigars; a tray; an oak board for slicing fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine—the "Baker Bare-ette"—is usually made with a red lacquer finish. Some are equipped with the heads & tails of animals (cock, horse, dog) sticking out at either end, to support the leaves which, when folded, cover the box, and, when unfolded serve as a depository for used glasses.1
The
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/263/image/coversmallPulp Fiction, Home Goods, and 1920s Cocktail Culture; or, Who was Shirley Paine?2026-02-01text/htmlen-USPulp Fiction, Home Goods, and 1920s Cocktail Culture; or, Who was Shirley Paine?2026-02-012026TWOProject MUSE®537252026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-02-01"Grownups in Hippieland": Seeing the Counterculture through Eye and Cheetah Magazines
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979332
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Time magazine declared in January 1967 that the "Man of the Year 1966 is a generation: the man—and woman—of 25 and under." Later that month, Timothy Leary urged young people to drop out of American society and drop acid at the Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park in January 1967. By June, the Summer of Love was in full bloom, and the mass media made Americans everywhere aware of the hippie phenomenon. Time, Life, and Newsweek rushed to publish cover stories about the as-yet unnamed counterculture, in which they reported on young men's scruffy hair, the popularity of rock music, and the experience of smoking marijuana or taking LSD.1Many young Americans considered the mainstream press's depiction of their generation
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/263/image/coversmall"Grownups in Hippieland": Seeing the Counterculture through Eye and Cheetah Magazines2026-02-01text/htmlen-US"Grownups in Hippieland": Seeing the Counterculture through Eye and Cheetah Magazines2026-02-012026TWOProject MUSE®1966362026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-02-01The Chicago Ledger: A Story Paper for the Country Custom
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979333
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The Chicago Ledger (1873–1925) was one of the longest-running story papers published in the United States. Each week for over fifty years and almost three thousand issues, it featured serialized stories, short stories, and departments for the home in a newspaper format. Rather than rely on the American News Company for distribution, like most of its competitors in New York and Philadelphia, the Ledger was instead sold directly to readers across the nation's farms, towns, and villages, where it could be found in millions of country homes. Originally available by subscription from the Chicago Newspaper Union beginning in 1873, its contents were also sold as readyprint or plate to hundreds of small-town newspapers.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/263/image/coversmallThe Chicago Ledger: A Story Paper for the Country Custom2026-02-01text/htmlen-USThe Chicago Ledger: A Story Paper for the Country Custom2026-02-012026TWOProject MUSE®1275322026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-02-01Circulating Genders and Sexualities
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In his 1991 book Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age, the theorist Anthony Giddens argued that modernity was characterized by institutional and personal modes of self-reflection. Discussing some of the genres that were enlisted for modern reflection, he said, "Not just academic studies, but all manner of manuals, guides, therapeutic works and self-help surveys contribute to modernity's reflexivity."1 As the texts in this issue attest, we might add the periodical to this list as well. In their own ways, each of the authors grapples with the roles that periodicals have played in the formation and continuation of communities and peoples threatened by regulation, erasure, and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/263/image/coversmallCirculating Genders and Sexualities2026-02-01text/htmlen-USCirculating Genders and Sexualities2026-02-012026TWOProject MUSE®2964262026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-02-01Histories of Countering Repression Periodically
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There's been a fever pitch of book banning recently. Since 2021, PEN America "has documented nearly 16,000 book bans," noting that this intensity has not been "seen since the Red Scare McCarthy era of the 1950s."1 Books that treat matters of sexuality and race are especially prone to being targeted. The two monographs that I discuss in this review—Reading the Obscene: Transgressive Editors and the Class Politics of US Literature by Jordan S. Carroll (Stanford University Press 2021) and Lesbian Porn Magazines and the Sex Wars: Reimagining Sex, Power, and Identity by Elizabeth Groeneveld (Routledge 2023)—trace the long history of censorship in the United States and illuminate how authors have striven to publish under
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/263/image/coversmallHistories of Countering Repression Periodically2026-02-01text/htmlen-USHistories of Countering Repression Periodically2026-02-012026TWOProject MUSE®197262026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-02-01The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979336
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Manifest Destiny is a core term in American Studies and one that is often exclusively discussed alongside Anglo-American expansionism and nation-building in the mid-nineteenth century. In The Race for America, R. J. Boutelle redirects our attention to the "mytho-history" that defines the period by reading it alongside a varied intellectual tradition of Black writer-activists that includes "practical emigration schemes, informal foreign policy, and theories of diaspora" (1). Boutelle's book takes a case studies approach to examine the diverse modes by which African American writers forged a print culture that sought to "unravel" and "reweave" the legend of Manifest Destiny to create "new forms of community, modes of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/263/image/coversmallThe Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)2026-02-01text/htmlen-USThe Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny by R. J. Boutelle (review)2026-02-012026TWOProject MUSE®128572026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-02-01American Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures by D. Berton Emerson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/979337
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Although he did not originate the phrase, former Speaker of the House of Representatives Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill is closely associated with the observation "All politics is local." The notion underlying the maxim is that voters are primarily motivated by local concerns during election season, but it is often extrapolated to mean that there is no such thing as truly "national" politics. There may be issues that get argued over on the national stage, but the ways that voters encounter those issues is shaped by local circumstances.While not stated explicitly, this is the premise that motivates Bert Emerson's compelling new book, American Literary Misfits. As the book's subtitle suggests, Emerson is on the search for
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/263/image/coversmallAmerican Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures by D. Berton Emerson (review)2026-02-01text/htmlen-USAmerican Literary Misfits: The Alternative Democracies of Mid-Nineteenth-Century Print Cultures by D. Berton Emerson (review)2026-02-012026TWOProject MUSE®106802026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-02-01Land of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical by Sigrid Anderson (review)
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Early in City of Quartz (1990), a suitably sprawling history of Los Angeles and its culture industry, the late Mike Davis describes the "Arroyo Set": a coterie of literary intellectuals and boosters "who at the turn of the [twentieth] century created a comprehensive fiction of Southern California as the promised land of a millenarian Anglo-Saxon racial odyssey." Bankrolled by the local chamber of commerce, the Arroyo Set "inserted a Mediterraneanized idyll of New England life into the perfumed ruins of an innocent but inferior 'Spanish' culture. In doing so, they wrote the script for the giant real-estate speculations of the early twentieth century that transformed Los Angeles from small town to metropolis."1
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-19T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/263/image/coversmallLand of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical by Sigrid Anderson (review)2026-02-01text/htmlen-USLand of Sunshine: Race, Gender, and Regional Development in a California Periodical by Sigrid Anderson (review)2026-02-012026TWOProject MUSE®199302026-05-19T00:00:00-05:002026-02-01