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The article is an editor's note from the journal American Periodicals. It introduces Marina Bilbija as the new Review Editor for the journal, highlighting her expertise in Black periodicals and her focus on international perspectives. The note emphasizes the journal's commitment to a broad definition of "America" and encourages submissions and book reviews that explore diverse communities, publications, and traditions. The note also discusses the importance of supporting scholarship in Black, Ethnic, Native, Chicano, Latine, and American Studies, as well as Gender and Sexuality. The article includes summaries of four essays featured in the journal, which cover topics such as the circulation of African American slave narratives in Canada, political satire in the mid-19th century, the role of seriality in cultural narratives, and the representation of women readers in Godey's Lady's Book. The editors invite feedback and engagement from readers. [Extracted from the article]

An introduction is presented wherein the editor discusses various reports within the issue on topics, including Black periodical histories from the vantage point of digital tools, new approaches to comics in periodical media, and keywords for a theory of comics in periodicals.

This forum considers how we locate editors through brief case studies of multiethnic periodicals from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. A focus on editors raises new questions and prospects for making visible the often hidden craft of periodicals across a wide variety of communities, contexts, and periods. Each contributor to this forum offers a case study that challenges any easy generalization about how editors have collaborated, where editors pioneered new periodical forms, and how the craft of editorship invites or dodges our critical gaze in the archives. Together, these pieces chart challenges and opportunities for considering the cultural contributions, aesthetics, and forms of expression that transcend author-centric literary histories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses early twentieth-century advertisements from Il Progresso Italo-Americano to complicate a long-standing binary in Italian American studies between the conservativism of cultural elites (prominenti) and the revolutionary perspectives of political radicals. In a formalist analysis buttressed by historical attention, the essay argues for the value of one exceptional image by proposing a method of formal reading that evokes translation's etymological approach [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses various articles published within the issue on such topics as journalism in the U.S., white and African American print culture, and African American discrimination.