Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society

Editors

Editor
Robert D. Sampson
Retired, Millikin University, Decatur
rsampson@illinois.edu

Contributing Editor
William Furry
Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield
PO Box 1800
Springfield, IL 62705-1800

Book Review Editor
Aaron Lisec
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Special Projects Editor
Timothy D. Draper
Waubonsee Community College, Sugar Grove

Editorial Advisory Board

• Robert I. Girardi, Civil War Round Table, Company of Military Historians, Chicago
• Greg Hall, Western Illinois University, Macomb
• Kristin Hoganson, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
• Robert D. Johnston, University of Illinois at Chicago
  
• Theodore J. Karamanski, Loyola University Chicago
• Ann Durkin Keating, North Central College, Naperville
• Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston
• Arthur Martin, Jenner & Block, LLP, Chicago
• Robert McColley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Eileen McMahon, Lewis University, Romeoville
  
• Dominic Pacyga, Columbia College, Chicago
• Robert Paulett, Southern Illinois University, Eswardsville
• Shirley J. Portwood, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville
• Barbara Posadas, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
• Debra Reid, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston
• David W. Scott, Chair, Publications Committee, Illinois State Historical Society, Springfield
• Amy Tyson, Depaul University, Chicago
  
  

Staff

Executive Director
William Furry 

Office Manager
Mary Lou Johnsrud

Administrative Assistant
Kimberly Jones

PDF Policy

PDFs are permitted and issued for the following:

• Tenure dossier.
• Special workshops the author is moderating.
• Other requests to be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
• All PDFs will include a statement of copyright and a provision that the articles will not be photocopied, distributed, or used for purposes other than the terms agreed to by UIP.

Preprints are permitted for:

• University repositories; UIP requires a publication statement to be posted along with the preprint.
• Some journals have their own established policies and procedures for preprints. Please be sure to first check their respective Web sites before sending your request.

Postprints are permitted for:

• Non-profit archives and repositories; Articles must be at least one year old. UIP requires a publication statement to be posted along with the postprint and a link back to the journal of publication's home page on the UIP website.
• Personal and commercial Web sites; Articles must be at least three years old. UIP requires a publication statement to be posted along with the postprint and a link back to the journal of publication's home page on the UIP website.

Please contact the Intellectual Property Manager for more information.

Please send all requests to:

Angela Burton
Intellectual Property Manager
UIP-RIGHTS@uillinois.edu

Submissions

We welcome essays, articles, and documents about Illinois, or its Midwest region. Studies about literature, art, technology, law, or other subjects are also welcome.

Authors should follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. (University of Chicago Press) or imitate notes in this journal; use endnotes. Authors who desire illustrations should provide them; authors are solely responsible for obtaining any rights or permissions to reproduce. Articles average 12,000 words (including notes) but we have accepted articles from 4,000 to 15,000 words.

The journal prefers to work with electronic files of manuscripts. Please submit your manuscript via our online submission platform.

Send books for review to Aaron Lisec, Book Review Editor, JISHS; Special Collections Research Center, Morris Library, Mai Code 6632, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901; email: alisec@siu.edu.

Articles appearing in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society are abstracted and indexed in both Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life. The Journal is a member of the Conference of Historical Journals.

Neither the editors nor the Illinois State Historical Society assume any responsibility for statements, whether of fact or opinion, made by contributors. This Journal uses single-blind peer-review.

View our Publications Ethics and Malpractice Statement

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