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means The stuff, images, and ephemera tied to American popular culture and history — old signs, quilts, baseball cards, diner mugs — collected and prized as artifacts of a national identity.

from Built from 'America' plus the Latin-derived suffix '-ana,' which tacks onto a name to mean 'things pertaining to' or 'a collection of things about' — the same pattern that gives us 'Victoriana' or 'Shakespeareana.' The suffix itself traces back to Latin's habit of forming neuter plural collections this way; English borrowed the trick wholesale for naming miscellanies and collectibles.