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A call for papers is presented for the periodical "Journal of American Culture."

This article intends to explore the constitutive role of US satirical periodicals in nation-building by focusing on the John-Donkey. In 1848, sixty years after the ratification of the American Constitution, the young United States was imagining itself into a nation. American periodicals were crucial in conveying competing ideas of what America should be, mirroring and amplifying widespread aspirations and preoccupations. In particular, the John-Donkey fostered a discussion with coeval papers on subjects such as mass immigration and the widespread sympathy for Pius IX in the United States. Although maintaining a desecrating attitude toward the papacy, the John-Donkey ridiculed those who deemed such sympathy and the rising number of Catholics (and Catholic voters) in the United States a threat. In doing so, the periodical indirectly expressed and expelled the anxieties fuelled in the readership by the Nativists as much as its editorial staff’s preoccupation that those anxieties might result in intolerance and even fanaticism. A detailed analysis of the texts and images related to these themes reveals conflating thoughts on international and domestic policies, indicating to what extent the projection of a specific “America” implied the definition of oneself as opposed to non-Americans and political opponents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the history and development of the Proquest archives of the newspaper "Los Angeles Times." Topics include infrastructural settings that transform old newspapers into new objects with a media specificity different from the original paper prints such as optical character recognition (OCR), access and paywalls, the challenge of converting periodicals into machine-readable texts, and the context of the creation of the "Los Angeles Times" database.

African American periodicals in the antebellum era advocated a fartherreaching agenda than just the abolition of slavery. Taking up a mantle of agrarian equality that runs through the English Commonwealthmen, Jefferson, Paine, and the Free-Soil movement of the 1840s, Black abolitionists—in contrast to the Garrisonians—targeted land monopolies as the economic foundation of the chattel system, whose elimination would be a necessary condition for the freedom of all Americans. While early platforms of the Republican Party also fused antislavery with the Free-Soil agenda, Republican leaders yielded to large-scale agrarian and industrial concerns after the War, a pivot which thinkers like W.E.B. DuBois would later implicate as the death-knell for racial equality. Our research indicates that for at least a decade before the Civil War, Black writers promoted land reform as an essential component of emancipation, embracing a neo-republican understanding of liberty that predicated civil rights on economic independence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses various topics within the issue, including the professional editorship of Laughton Osborn, the works of Arab American authors Afifa Karam and Sumayeh Attiyeh, and the enslaved African American printers in the Southern Press.

The article critiques the comic strip "Crazy Quilt" by cartoonist Frank King published in the newspaper "Chicago Tribune" from April to June 1914. Topics include King's inspiration for creating the newspaper comic strip, the diverse heterogeneity of artistic styles invoked by the work, an argument that calling it a strip is misleading, and factors complicating its reading in any sequential order.

The article presents guidelines for authors who intend to submit their manuscripts to the periodical "Plant and Soil." The periodical publishes original research papers and solicited review articles that deal with the interface of plant biology and soil sciences, are of general interest, and provide a clear mechanistic component. "Plant and Soil" provides publication of full-length papers which describe the results of original research. The periodical will publish special issues containing a collection of articles on a theme considered by the editors to be of general interest to the readers.

Information about papers delivered at two symposiums held in 2009 is presented. The May meeting of the American Literature Association discussed the history of poetry in American periodicals and the American Periodicals Series Online created by ProQuest LLC. The October meeting of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers discussed women essayists in the 18th and 19th centuries; the history of advice columns; and letters sections in American periodicals from the 19th century to the 21st century.

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In 1838 New York novelist Laughton Osborn attempted to ignite a sensation in the pages of American periodicals with the publication of a remarkable mock epic poem. Modeled on Alexander Pope's Dunciad Variorum, The Vision of Rubeta: An Epic Story of the Island of Manhattan proffered a four hundred-plus page satire of the American literary scene that was by turns playful, indignant, and profane. One curious feature of The Vision of Rubeta is the intensity with which Osborn attacks the editors of two six-cent newspapers, the New York Commercial Advertiser and the New York American. This article attempts to explain Osborn's seemingly eccentric choice of satirical targets. In the 1830s, editors William Leete Stone, Sr. of the Commercial Advertiser and Charles King of the American joined a spirited competition among periodical editors for literary-critical prominence, supplementing their commercially oriented newspapers with significant literary coverage and elevating themselves into nationally esteemed critical voices, upsetting established hierarchies of critical authority. Recognizing the substantial literary contributions of these newspapers requires some reevaluation of the standard narrative of antebellum periodical history, in which six-cent newspapers are regarded as little more than a dying medium that provided utilitarian financial and political news to a dwindling readership before succumbing to the competition of the penny press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

On July 11, 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was published in the United States. This novel had a huge impact on American society, becoming the second most popular book after the Bible. The author received a Pulitzer prize for it and many other honors and awards. However, a new book from Harper Lee had to wait longer than half a century. Go Set a Watchman was a sequel of To Kill a Mockingbird, but chronologically it was created first. Both novels were the focus of interest of domestic researchers, while other works by Harper Lee still remain little-known and unexplored in Russian literary studies. Thе paper introduces all works ever published by Harper Lee in USA since 1937 to 2006, and gives the list of Lee's manuscripts which could be discovered in the future. The bibliographic descriptions are arranged in chronological order and contain fragments from unknown works by Harper Lee. The presented list gives an opportunity to get acquainted with the content of “small forms” in which the author worked throughout her life. These are essays, parodies, one-act plays, poems, satirical columns, open letters, etc. The paper is dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee's first novel.

Comments on the changes in the "International Journal of General Systems". Author's experiences as editor of the periodical; Introduction of a section on "Intelligent Systems Design"; Changes in the periodical's editorial board; Fundamental change regarding the required style of each manuscript submitted for a publication in the journal.

More than 10 years ago, Orlikowski and lacono (2001) examined the conceptualization of Information Technology (IT) in Information Systems Research (ISR) articles published in the 1990s. Their main conclusion was that the majority of these articles did not properly conceptualize the IT artifact. They recommended that IS researchers start to theorize about the IT artifact and employ rich conceptualizations of IT. The Orlikowski and lacono paper provides a strong anchor point from which to analyze the evolution of the IS discipline. In order to obtain an up-to-date image of contemporary IS research, and to assess how the IS field has evolved since the 1990s, we carried out a similar analysis on a more recent and broader set of articles, that is, the full set (N=644) of papers published between 2006 and 2009 by six top North American (ISR, MISQ, JAIS) and European (JIT, ISJ, EJIS) journals. The statistics in our results reveal no drastic advance in terms of deeper engagement with the IT artifact; more than 39% of the articles in our set are virtually mute about the artifact, and less than 16% employ an ensemble view of IT. Moreover, we note differences among the North American and European journals. Implications of the findings for two perspectives central to the IS research legitimacy debate are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on the article 'The Media: Playing the Government's Game,' by William A. Dorman,' published in the August 1985 issue of the periodical 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.'

The article lists several resources related to the teaching of American periodicals including "Breathing New Life into Research Papers," by George T. Blakey, "Online News," by Susan Brooks-Young and "Special Edition: Using Newspapers in the Classroom," by Mackie Rhodes.

From the nineteenth century to the present, Indigenous periodicals have served as mediators for both complex citational practices and decolonial translations, as well as an important archive documenting and representing Indigenous people and issues. This special issue of the journal American Periodicals brings together scholars working on Indigenous periodicals to provide a glimpse into the vast array of Indigenous periodical writing as continuous repositories of Indigenous knowledge. The contributions highlighted in this special issue, emerging from an MLA roundtable session and a symposium on Indigenous print cultures, show that Indigenous periodicals serve as distinct material carriers of Indigenous information and visual-graphic spaces of communication, knowledge production, and community-building. They are complex media artifacts whose relation to the construction of sovereignty is articulated through periodicity, network, mediator, and archive. As special issue editors, we seek to broaden existing understandings of Indigenous textualities and interpretative traditions by offering a fresh approach to analyzing periodicals and the role they play in the expansion of Indigenous print, while also highlighting Indigenous periodicals' ongoing political and cultural work of sharing diverse viewpoints, expressing identity, establishing and participating in traditions, and asserting sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

My research suggests that in addition to local practices, American film historians should continue to be attentive to mass experiences determined not only by location but, in this case, by 19th century periodical reading habits. I focus on the first four years of US public photochemical motion picture exhibition to consider the similarities I found in the use of still photographs to explain and introduce the machines and development processes used to introduce photochemical motion pictures to middle-class reading publics, effectively inviting readers to mentally animate the images themselves in imitatiion of a screening apparatus. I argue that the use of photographs in US magazines, the result of changes in printing practices in the period following the Civil War, shows that in addition to documented exhibitor practices, published magazine accounts also readied potential audience members for the new experience they would encounter by emphasizing the synthesis of individual photographs to create motion pictures. This relationship demonstrates that American periodicals played a crucial role in the way photochemical motion pictures and still photographs were depicted in mass culture to visualize the hidden relationship between photograms once they are placed in motion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Comments on Harrison Brown's article in the October 1985 issue of the periodical 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,' which suggested that a millennium will be required to reach a reasonably secure world, given the current pace of arms control agreements.

This paper explores the relationship between literary modernism and mainstream culture within a little-studied American magazine, Life (New York, 1884-1936). It does so by looking at three ways in which Life presented modernism to its readers: by quoting modernist writing, and, above all, by satirizing modernist art, and by offering didactic explanations of modernist art and literature. By reconsidering some of the long-established divisions between high and low culture, and between ‘little’ and ‘bigger’ magazines, this paper contributes to a better understanding of what modernism was and meant. It also suggests that the double agenda observed in Life – both satirical and didactic – might be a way of defining middlebrow magazines.

Somewhat frustratingly, there are so many that some magazines, such as the 1920s periodical I The Flapper i (1922) and the music publication I Hep Cat's Review i (1956), are not discussed in the main text. In her introduction to the volume, magazine scholar Heather Haveman notes that "between 1825 and 1850, almost three thousand new magazines were launched, followed by almost sixteen hundred the next decade. [Extracted from the article]

This essay examines global networks and alliances in Martin Robison Delany's serialized novel, Blake (1859–60, 1861–62). I read Delany's writing on Cuban annexationism and the poet Plácido in relation to the voluminous writing about the latter that was circulating in the US and South American periodical press after the poet's public execution in 1844. I contend that Delany's novel performs what I call an "affective translation" of Plácido's poetry, an oblique translation that models itself on what Delany called "harmony in sentiment," which reproduces his anti-annexationist stance and sense of anticolonial fraternity. My essay sees the work of citation, literary interpretation, and translation as key factors in the novel's vision of hemispheric emancipation, topics I discuss in relation to the work of Delany's immediate contemporaries, including James McCune Smith, who was writing for some of the same newspapers and publications to which Delany contributed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article explores the possibilities of term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) computational method in American periodicals. Topics include the use of data collected on titles in Mary Ann Shadd Cary's "Provincial Freeman" newspaper to demonstrate the use of TF-IDF, an explanation of the TF-IDF method, a list of the most frequent terms in "Provincial Freeman" titles from 1853-1857, and the limitations of the method which is concerned with text.

The article discusses the history of comic strips published in magazines in the U.S. during the 19th-century. Topics include the appearance of sequential and multi-panel comic strips in U.S. magazines from 1840s to 1930s, the growth experienced by comic strips with their prominence in folio-monthlies such as "Yankee Notions" from 1850s-1870s, the reason early American comic strips pose challenges for critics and the significant contribution of humor magazines to the development of early comics.

From the late 1890s onwards, Donegal writer Seumas MacManus was a frequent contributor to leading American periodicals and was often listed alongside noted American local colour writers. Moreover, the first books he published in America were immediately successful. MacManus rooted his work explicitly in Donegal and its seanchaí tradition, and in the United States in particular his works were positioned as representative of an authentic Celticity. But why did MacManus's work translate so readily to the American market? And what were the contexts that engendered the success of his stories and books? Using reviews, profiles, promotional materials, letters, and MacManus's self-presentations, this article explores how his work contributed to the construction and commodification of a transatlantic sense of Irishness rooted in local colour conventions. It concludes that the American reception of his work demonstrates how apparently local formations of regional identity garnered transatlantic attention not only as a function of their exoticness, but also as a result of the instrumentalisation of domestic literary conventions that generated conceptual links between localness and universality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution to a symposium on The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown discusses Brown's late eighteenth-century magazine writing and the questions they raise around authorial attribution, literary anonymity and pseudonymity, and periodical composition, which point to new understandings of Brown's canonical works and early American literary culture more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay examines phrenological tools as instruments of matchmaking and focuses on the personal ad as a site for producing and exchanging knowledge about individuals. It shows how cranial measurement produced character profiles for the purpose of judging suitable marriage partners and how users integrated those profiles into personal advertisements published in the Water-Cure Journal. A popular but contested science of the mind, phrenology maintained that one could truly know others and oneself through measuring "organs" of the mind via protrusions on the skull. While much has been written about phrenology, less attention has been paid to its focus on marriage and mating and to how users enrolled phrenology to find and judge the viability of a mate. Focused on the American context in the 1850s, this essay will show that notions of race and gender, heredity, and marital "relations" were embedded in the shorthand of phrenological measurements and personal ads. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several topics discussed at the "America at Century's End, 1890-1900" seminar at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania is presented. Topics include the role of American periodicals in examining the American literary and cultural history. The seminar featured several novels of various authors as well as nineteenth century periodicals.

This article chronicles the visual history of the American Agriculturist (1842-51; 1853- present; New York City), the first farming periodical in the United States to widely embrace artistic engravings. Long recognized as one of the most popular and influential periodicals in the mid-nineteenth-century United States, the Agriculturist's efforts to cultivate rural artistic taste has largely escaped investigation. This article recounts the development of the farming journal's interest in art-reproductions of paintings, original compositions, and other pictorial images-and explores its careful positioning as a mediator between the spheres of practical agriculture and fine art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses topics within the issue including the role of magazines in American culture, publications in the "Cherokee Phoenix" periodical relating to Cherokee removal, and scholarship surrounding Italian American newspapers.

This special issue probes our definitions and understandings of both the ‘radical’ and the ‘American’ in North American print and periodical culture. As many of the subsequent papers demonstrate, notions of radicalism as expressed in American periodicals often necessitate(d) looking beyond the nation state. Similarly, this issue highlights the fluidity of ‘radicalism’ as a temporal and technological concept; relatable not only to literary content, but also to graphic design, editorial control, foreign language use, subscription policies, and other aspects of production, dissemination and reception. Thematically and conceptually diverse, the articles collated here provide a judicious intervention into the developing field of periodical studies.

An introduction to essays published within the issue is presented on topics including the editorial shift that transformed "Conditions" into a multiracial, multi-cultural, and multiclass periodical, the archive of American periodical studies by insisting on the inclusion of feminist zines, and feminist periodical studies.

Nine contributors reflect on the rewards and challenges of recovering American women’s writing through the periodical archive, addressing research methods, collaborative scholarship, and what work remains to be done to reconstruct, interpret, and theorize women’s place in periodical culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]