Cultural History

  • SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: 1990-2000A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #11112025 – 11222025) ───────────────────────────────LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT───────────────────────────────   This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary.   It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use provisions of U.S. Read more

  • SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume IV (1950-1970)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owen(Index #11032025 – 11062025) ─────────────────────────────── LEGAL & FAIR USE STATEMENT ───────────────────────────────     This book is a work of documentary history and cultural commentary.    It incorporates short quotations from publicly available materials for purposes of analysis, education, and historical discussion under the Fair Use Read more

  • SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS: Volume III (1930-1950)A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy: Emmitt Owens(Index #10312025 – 11032025) —    Between 1930 and 1950, Americans identified at least twenty distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: marijuana, comic books (intensified), Superman, juvenile delinquency, swing music, zoot suits, pinup girls, bikinis, television, rock and roll’s precursors, Read more

  • SIGNS THE DEVIL HOLDS1910-1930A Documentary History of American Moral PanicBy Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10302025) —    Between 1910 and 1930, Americans identified at least fifteen distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: jazz music, motion pictures, comic books, radio broadcasting, women’s suffrage, flappers, bobbed hair, makeup, smoking in public, short skirts, the Charleston dance, speakeasies, gangster Read more

  • Signs the Devil Holds: 1890-1910By: Emmitt Owens(Index #10282025-10292025) A Documentary History of American Moral Panic    Between 1890 and 1910, Americans identified at least ten distinct signs of Satan’s work on Earth: electricity, women on bicycles, portable cameras, ice cream sodas, telephones, automobiles, penny dreadfuls and dime novels, “white slavery,” ragtime music, and the waltz.   Read more

  • The Double Move: How Halloween’s Date Traveled from May to November By: Emmitt Owens(Index #09112025-10102025) Unraveling a Universal Human Pattern Most people know that Halloween falls on October 31st—the night before All Saints’ Day. But few realize that the Christian feast now celebrated on November 1st began its liturgical life on a completely different date: Read more