Whether you are reading this issue of American Quarterly online or in hard copy, I hope that you noticed the radical change to our cover design. When I assumed the role of Editor in July 2024, I made it a priority to redesign the look of the journal, which had had pretty much the same cover design for over twenty years. For the past several months our Associate Managing Editor Marie Shelton and I have been working with the American Studies Association's brilliant Program Manager, Christine Shell, to completely reimagine how the journal could look and have landed on what you now see. We wanted to make AQ more graphic and colorful, with a full-bleed image and color overlay on every cover. Subsequent issues of AQ will follow this new design schema, with the cover changing color with each issue, which will eventually make for a colorful area on your bookshelf when you line up your American Quarterlies. I want to personally thank Christine and Marie for their work on the redesign, as well as the multiple audiences to whom I have presented our ideas, for all the encouragement and feedback, and hope that this new design will feel to readers, as it does to me, like...