{"title":"Voudou and Vengeance: Marie Laveau's Evolution From Maternal Figure to Satanic Avenger in American Horror Story: Coven","authors":"Kathleen Turner Ledgerwood","doi":"10.1111/jacc.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.70056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"49 1","pages":"3-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147565513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Anti-Christ and the Millennium: Revolutionary Apocalypticism in Colonial Maryland, 1640–1700","authors":"Michael Wolfe","doi":"10.1111/jacc.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Scholars have often brushed over the topic of apocalyptic and Millennialist ideology after 1660. This research finds that apocalyptic convictions played a primary role in fomenting revolutionary political action in colonial Maryland during the mid-late 17th century. A politico-historical and theological analysis of colonial documents and contemporary English apocalyptic publications reveals clear emulation of Isaian restoration language—suggesting that Maryland revolutionaries understood their actions within the larger Millennial narrative. The findings in this study open the door for further consideration of the effect of imperial power structures on regionalized apocalyptic narratives in the 17th century and beyond.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"49 1","pages":"38-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147570366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency. By Fitzgerald, Robert, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2025. 241 pp. ISBN: 978-1-46-968545-8","authors":"Scott R. Stalcup","doi":"10.1111/jacc.70058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.70058","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"49 1","pages":"62-63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Play This Book Loud: Noisy Essays. By Joe Bonomo, Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2025. 242 pp. ISBN: 978-0-8203-7380-5","authors":"Scott R. Stalcup","doi":"10.1111/jacc.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.70054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"49 1","pages":"83-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147567072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sports Through the Lens: Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs. By M. Smith Maureen, A. Nathan Daniel, and K. Fields Sarah (eds.), Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024. 294 pp. $45 (hardcover). ISBN: 978-1-47-733009-8","authors":"Theodore Bain","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13628","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"140-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145012244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Abraham Lincoln: Books and Ephemera From the David M. Rubinstein Americana Collection. By Mazy Boroujerdi (ed.), New York: The Grolier Club, 2024. 271 pp. ISBN: 978-1-60-583118-3","authors":"David M. Sokol","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"138-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145012238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Divisive Concepts Unlimited: The NEA Four and LGBTQ+ Censorship From Clit Notes to Gender Queer","authors":"Kurt Edward Milberger","doi":"10.1111/jacc.70008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.70008","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Inspired by the NEA 4 arts controversy, eager censors in Cobb County, Georgia, objected to a 1994 performance of Terrance McNally's <i>Lips Together, Teeth Apart</i>. They argued that public funding should not support what they deemed objectionable art. Today, Cobb County is again in the news after the firing of Katie Rinderle for reading <i>My Shadow Is Purple</i> under the auspices of the state's “Divisive Concepts” law and the removal of dozens of books from public-school libraries. As the national panic over LGBTQ+ content in books and schools continues, this article reconsiders the NEA Four controversy as a prelude to the political and administrative strategies adapted to silence artists and writers, deprive them of funding, and legislate morality. Tracing the shift from the debate over “obscenity” and “decency” in the 1990s to the “divisive concepts” of today, it reveals how activists, politicians, technocrats, and administrators exploit institutional mechanisms to resist the power of popular culture and considers how artists have and might continue to confront censorship.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"107-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"James Sallis's Autoscopic Fiction: The Lew Griffin Novels","authors":"Robert Lance Snyder","doi":"10.1111/jacc.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>James Sallis's six Lew Griffin narratives (1992–2001) comprise a remarkable innovation on the crime novel. Abjuring temporally sequential plots, Sallis's installments challenge traditional ideas about agency, causation, and historicity in their accounts of a New Orleans black man who becomes by turns a loan collector, freelance investigator, part-time college lecturer, and successful novelist. The metafictional series revolves around its protagonist's ongoing efforts, after enduring various setbacks, to reconstruct his life. Through the autoscopic project of artistic endeavor, Griffin arrives at some measure of self-understanding, but Sallis's saga underscores the radical contingency of such an ontological wager.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"101-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Spires Still Point to Heaven: Cincinnati's Religious Landscape, 1788–1873. By Matthew Smith, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 2023. 259. 9781439922958","authors":"Mark Sullivan","doi":"10.1111/jacc.13621","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.13621","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"127-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145013066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Scholars and Their Kin: Historical Explorations, Literary ExperimentsEdited by Stéphane Gerson, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2025. 236 pp. $27.95 (Paperback), $80.00 (Hardback). ISBN: 978-0-226-82083-5","authors":"Theodore Bain","doi":"10.1111/jacc.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.70000","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44809,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE","volume":"48 3","pages":"142-143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145012671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}