Since its founding in 1929, "American Literature"" "has been considered the preeminent journal in its field. In this special issue, which celebrates the landmark seventy-fifth anniversary of the journal, past and present editors assess the contribution the journal has made to literary studies by considering the journal's evolution: how it has departed from, remained loyal to, extended, qualified, rejected, or questioned Hubbell's original agenda. "Contributors." David Anthony, Houston A. Baker Jr., Louis J. Budd, Edward Cahill, Cathy N. Davidson, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Michael Moon, Nicola Nixon, Heather Roberts, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Priscilla Wald.