"The Dark Fantastic" is an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction...

How have memes changed politics?

In the summer of 1928, William Alexander Scott began a small four-page weekly with the help of his brother Cornelius...

Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...

DiGirolamo looks at the legion of children and teenagers who sold newspapers on city streets, moving trains, and even Civil War battlefields in the 19th and early 20th centuries...

Scott provides an overview of the convergence culture industry and the world of fandom while examining the role that gender and misogyny has played in understanding who is and is not considered an “authentic” fan...

Thompson examines the Melville's magazine work in its original publication...

Adelman argues that printers—artisans who mingled with the elite but labored in a manual trade—used their commercial and political connections to directly shape Revolutionary political ideology and mass mobilization...

Southard examines the discourse of international women leaders seeking agency for women, the traditional subjects of violence across the global south...

Veidlinger offers a theoretically compelling exploration of the types communicative “ecosystems” in which Buddhist ideas have flourished throughout history.

Kroik explores the relationship between work and gender in American culture...

How do women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries?

Using many examples of Hollywood movies, Resnick analyzes the way movies perform in a variety of formal and informal educational settings...

Borchard calls for a better understanding of journalism's past, at a time of acute concern about its future...

What is the social role of data?

They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...

Lippert explores the significance of the pictorial revolution in one of its vanguard cities: San Francisco, the revolving door of the gold rush...

Zalar exposes the myth of faith-based intellectual repression...

Ornamentalism offers arguably the first sustained theory of the yellow woman...

Vallance examines ‘loyal addresses’ as mechanisms for the expression of public opinion, and as links between the local and national contexts of politics...

German lawmakers drafted a constitution in 1919 legalizing the censorship of movies and pulp fiction, and prioritizing social rights over individual rights...

Tworek explores how elites in academia, business, and government fought over the regulation of news at home and sought to use communications to extend German power abroad.

Stein re-emerges as a major twentieth-century rhetorician, not a spin doctor, as the word might suggest to some, but as someone who follows as sure as she remakes the rules of writing, expression, and language...

The television comedies of the 1960s set in the American South epitomize American innocence...

Gaunt uses real-life stories of successes and failures in leadership and negotiations which are both compelling and pragmatic to readers’ own lives...