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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
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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
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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
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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
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The Great Doritos Heist and Other Wednesday Night Adventures It was Wednesday night at Chill n’Fill, and I was two hours into my shift when Bob’s latest creation nearly gave me a heart attack. He’d transformed our one-eyed polar bear mascot into what he called “Detective Bear,” complete with a deerstalker hat that was Read more
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Another Night at Chill n’Fill: The Joseph Lancour Memorial, The Military Mother, The Veteran and The Protestor It was Sunday night at Chill n’Fill, the day before Memorial Day, 2025… and I was two hours into my shift when I discovered Bob’s most solemn tribute yet. Our one-eyed polar bear mascot, the towering figure Read more
