Sarah Herndon and Samuel Stebbins

Introduction Music journalism found significance in the 1960s, following the Beatles’ mainstream success. One of the first popular music magazines was Melody Maker, a British magazine that began being published in 1926 and ran until 2000, finding success when it started focusing on Rock music in the 1960s. With the emergence of publications like New Musical Express (NME) and Rolling Stone, Pop music and cultural criticism became a serious pursuit of many journalists, helping to legitimize...

Chester Bacon, Bethany Bade, Blake Blechle, Kay Boswell, Emily Evans, Erika Friedlander, Alex Gaulden, and Grace LoFaro

For centuries, humans have developed games as a form of entertainment. It is a cultural aspect that brings together a community through competition, narrative, strategy, and consumerism. From tabletop games to video games to competitive card games, games have brought people together through shared hobbies and careers. Throughout the 1990s, comics and magazines became a way for people to remain connected and updated on their hobbies. These publications introduced new strategies, products, communities, information, and...

Lauren Bondor, Victoria Bridges, Eliana Collantes, Jewell Pfister, Kali Schwartz, Taofeeqat Soluoku, and Kaitlyn Wolfmeyer

Between the 1980s and 2000s, countless magazines were published to help home cooks, ranging from novices to experienced cooks. These could be picked up at any grocery store checkout lane. While most of the magazines in this exhibit focus on health, especially calorie counting, a few serve gourmet cooks. These publications offer us much more than just recipes. They serve as asnapshot of American domestic life and cultural values during a transformative period in food history....

Curated by Arian Abdulla, Abigail Cutts, Zachary Gibson, Jeffrey Gluckman, Jonathan Phillips, & Renee Spinner, 2025

This exhibit presents toy and collectible magazines drawn from the Samir Husni Magazine Collection. The exhibit was curated in summer 2025 as the final project of IS_LT 9428: History of Books and Media.

Curated by Tess Childress, Anna Comfort, Faith Edwards, Hannah Kittle, and Caitlin Souers, 2025.

This exhibit presents sports magazines drawn from the Samir Husni Magazine Collection. The exhibit was curated in summer 2025 as the final project of IS_LT 9428: History of Books and Media.

Curated by Elisabeth Baker, Colin Hodges, Matthew Lane, Tamaka Mann, Sheri McCaskill, and Kelsey Meline, 2025.

The decades leading up to the new millennium and the decades beyond saw the arrival of modern religious magazines. These magazines delved into subjects both sacred and secular, from daily living for practicing adherents, to news from around the world and how it affected those faithful laypeople. Obviously, these religious magazines featured articles upon the faith and how those practitioners might best live their beliefs credibly. Many of these religious magazines were created specifically to be...

Curated by Diana Bell, Gina Hays, Shelby Janke, Julianne Moore, Rachel Peters, Gabrielle Wicker, 2025.

This exhibit features issues of North American fashion magazines spanning 1985-2004. It was curated in summer 2025 as the final project of IS_LT 9428: History of Books and Media.

Curated by Jacqueline Culas, Haley Disterhoft, Isabelle "Jennie" Murray, Alison Restelli, Chayanne Sandoval-Williams, and Gretchen Tharp, 2025.

This exhibit focuses on a select number of Bridal magazines during that peak from 1992 to 2011. They were donated by Dr. Samir Husni, a leading expert on print and magazine journalism, known as Mr. Magazine. These magazines, mostly first volume editions, focus on the bridal industry from across the world. The exhibit was curated in summer 2025 as the final project of IS_LT 9428: History of Books and Media.