In the latest episode of the University of Press podcast, The UPside, we sat down with Dr. Thomas J. Balcerski, editor of Connecticut History Review, to discuss a new special issue on Connecticut’s role in the American Revolution, as well as his editorship, the America250 anniversary, the importance of archives to the journal, Connecticut History Day, and more. You can listen to the podcast here or read below for a transcript of the conversation.

Mary Warner: Welcome to the University of Illinois Press podcast, The UPside. I’m Mary Warner, the Journals Marketing Assistant for the Press, and today I’m excited to present our podcast highlighting the journal Connecticut History Review for America 250, the 250-year anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.I’m joined today by the journal editor, Thomas J. Balcerski. 

Thomas, we’re so excited to have you here. Before we jump into the discussion about the issue, I’d love it if you could introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your background. 

Thomas Balcerski: Thank you, Mary. Hello, everyone. I’m Thomas Balcerski, the editor of Connecticut History Review. It’s part of my role as professor of History and Director of the Center for Connecticut Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, Connecticut.I’ve been at the university for about 10 years, and I’m now entering my third year as editor of Connecticut History Review. I come from a long line of Connecticut History editors, and Connecticut History Review, it’s subsequently named. So, going back actually to the early 1970s, when the journal was founded atEastern Connecticut State, at the Center for Connecticut Studies, the founding editor was David Roth, whose position I now hold. So, it’s heartwarming and affirming to see the journal return to the Center for Connecticut Studies and Eastern Connecticut State University. 

Mary Warner: Great, yeah, thank you so much.  So, the Connecticut History Review is a publication of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History. The journal is published twice annually in the spring and fall. The journal serves many different constituencies, museum and historical society professionals, academic scholars, history buffs, graduate students, and educators. Each issue of the Connecticut History Review contains original research articles, book reviews, and research notes on the history and culture of Connecticut. You can learn more about Connecticut History Review, including how to subscribe, submit your own work, or read online at go.illinois.edu/CHR. Now that we know a little bit more about the journal and your background, can you discuss more about how you came to be the editor of the Connecticut History Review? 

Thomas Balcerski: Yeah, and CHR is our short acronym in the lingo. I knew about CHR early on, even since graduate school. It’s a rich scholarly resource, as I mentioned, with more than 50 years of publication. It’s searchable on various databases, and you can thus access the articles typically through your library, or if you are a subscriber, you might have electronic access or even print access. 

So it is, at this point, the leading scholarly journal of anyone who studies Connecticut history, which, again, pertains to both New England and the United States. So, I knew about it, I respected it. As I came to live and work in Connecticut, however, then I found myself immersed in it by teaching a course called “Connecticut History,” in my scholarship as I learned about the place I live and all around me, and in my professional contacts and networks. It became clear to me there was a strong and robust community really of Connecticut historians and those who were passionate about Connecticut history, so, in that sense, it was a natural move from working as a teacher of U.S. history more broadly to now specializing in on Connecticut history. Very few people, I must say, go to graduate school and get their doctorate in Connecticut history, much like that could be said of other states, but once you start to actually focus on it and dig deeper into the local archives, the state-level archives, you begin to realize how important and significant this little state’s history really is. 

Mary Warner: Yeah, it has been so interesting working for the publisher of the journal, there’s so much more to this state than I would have expected. So, can you tell us, are there any major highlights or challenges that you’ve had in your time as editor? 

Thomas Balcerski: Being editor of Connecticut History Review has been a real pleasure. The transition period from my predecessor, Marie McDaniel, my colleague at the Connecticut State University System was smooth and easy. Probably the first major challenge was what to do with the back archive of all the issues.

Marie has her standard faculty office of, say, 10’ by 10’, and she had box upon box upon box stuffed every which way in this office, from floor to ceiling. And when I got news that I would be editor, she said, “You have to come and pick up the boxes.” I didn’t know what she meant. Willimantic to New Haven, where she’s located, is about an hour. So over two trips, I ended up bringing 16 banker boxes in my little car to and from. Now, I have the same faculty office, so I thought, what am I going to do with these 16 boxes full of Connecticut History and Connecticut History Review back issues. Well, then the solution became to store them at the Center for Connecticut Studies, and thanks to the assistance and support of the provost at the university, we located a space that was really underutilized within the library and rebranded it the new home of Connecticut History Review. And on two large library-style bookshelves, with the assistance of editorial assistants and student workers, the entire backlog has been archived and cataloged for our usage in our records, as well as that of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (ASCH) at conferences or other events. So, I like to think that the biggest challenge I had was what to do with all the history, quite literally.

And I would say that’s also been a highlight: how rich the history is, how many people who you would not even expect to be writing about Connecticut history, as far afield as the West Coast, to the Deep South, to Northern New England. I get submissions from people almost everywhere. And it might be they’re no longer living or working in Connecticut, but they may have had a connection to the state at some point. And it’s being able to see how really far a reach this state’s history has that I would say has been a highlight so far. 

Mary Warner: So amazing to have that resource of physical archives. And one last question about your editorship before we switch topics. If anyone listening is considering submitting to CHR, are there any particular kinds of submissions or topics that you would love to see? 

Thomas Balcerski: CHR accepts, really, all kinds of articles, but when we use the word article in editorial-speak, we typically mean a 10,000-word scholarly footnoted piece that uses primary sources and secondary sources, has an argument, and frames evidence in a more academic way. We’re not a popular journal, as some of our sister and brotherly publications are across the state, so we do want to bring new research and new manuscripts to life.

But because of that, we also see a special value in shorter pieces that have been branded either “From the Archives” or, in a different way, perhaps a “Research Note,” another way to say it. That could be 1,000 words, 2,000 words, could focus on one document, could even be a transcript of a series of documents that are very interesting. And thanks to UIP’s ability to easily reproduce page upon page of these images, we find that these are some of the most interesting ways to share history. It’s not a fully formed article, but a short note. 

And we also do, of course, want to share with our readership anything that’s exciting happening in the field of Connecticut history. So, this could include reports about Connecticut History Day, about the doings of ASCH, or even special events or conferences. So, I would love to hear more from local historical societies, from libraries who would like to update the readership as to what is happening in their corner of the state. And we think we can be a kind of clearinghouse, especially for new research and new manuscripts that come to light. 

Mary Warner: And anyone interested in submitting can learn more information on the University of Illinois Press website. 

So, this year, we’re all celebrating America250. How does Connecticut fit into the country’s larger history, and why is it such an important state to talk about and study, especially in the context of the American Revolution? 

Thomas Balcerski: Well, America250 has been an ongoing commemoration in the state. In some ways, it even began last year. Depending on how one accounts time, the road to revolution begins probably sometime in the 1760s but heats up significantly in the 1770s. 

But the fighting began, we sometimes forget, in 1775, with the first shots fired at Lexington and then Concord, which is in Massachusetts, but Connecticut responded with soldiers and militia pretty much the next day, even though it missed most of the fighting. So, in some ways, Connecticut’s America250 should have been a 2025 commemoration, but we held off with everyone else to wait till this year. 

It’s important to note, though, that we expect this commemoration to continue in the ensuing years. The Revolution did not formally end until 1783, and some of the most significant events pertaining to Connecticut’s part in the American Revolution, events that took place here in Connecticut, take place in 1777, 1778, 1779, as far as 1781. So, I anticipate you’ll see America250-style events over the next 5 years in the state, and that by beginning this process, really, of its commemoration and putting a spotlight on it, we can open up some new information, some new research for those commemorations. 

This is also true—and this is what took place at the Bicentennial in 1976–there were a series of really rich, short, but important publications on figures, events, and people that are still relied upon 50 years later. So, our hope is that this interest translates into all sorts of new avenues for study that will be relied on for decades to come. 

Mary Warner: And CHR‘s fall issue will actually be America250-themed. At the time we’re recording this, it’s not published yet, but hopefully will be out by the time we release it. Can you give us maybe a preview of the articles that we can expect to see in that issue? 

Thomas Balcerski: It’sgoing to be a really rich special issue, our second special issue in as many years. A special issue that has been called for over 3 years, and began with my predecessor, Marie McDaniel, and now has produced 3 articles of the feature length, as well as a really interesting and important From the Archives piece. So, I’ll mention the authors and names of each of those pieces so people get that preview and can look forward to reading them.

Katherine Hermes has been a longtime contributor to the journal. She’s publisher of our sister journal, or I should say magazine, Connecticut Explored, and a board member for Connecticut History Review. Kathy’s written an article called, “‘Give Me a Ship to the Pacific: Connecticans’ National Interest in the Voyages of Captain Cook, 1768 to 1800.” So right away, you see a framing that’s transnational, oceanic, Pacific in its view, but she finds really interesting connections of Connecticans to this important exploration that spanned really beyond the Revolutionary Era with Captain Cook. So, we thought we might kind of mix things up with a non-traditional, in a way, piece that has a Revolutionary tie. 

The second article is by a duo of local historians and ASCH members, Alison Guinness and Karl Stofko. Their article’s titled, “A Tale of Two Neighbors: General Joseph Spencer and Dr. Abner Beebe.” And here the Revolution is brought inward, where we see a painstaking focus on local history as compared to that transnational global history in the prior article, and how two men who were practically neighbors side by side had very different experiences during the Revolution, and indeed, beyond. General Joseph Spencer is one of the great heroes of the Revolution of Connecticut, whereas Abner Beebe, a loyalist who stayed loyal to the Crown, suffers a much harsher fate, and in many ways, like this really cool broken millstone that the authors highlight, his reputation and his story is just as broken. 

Maggie Meahl provides the third article, “To Provision Washington’s Army: 1776 and the Norwich Huntington Group.” And here we see kind of inversion of the prior themes, where now, again, we see Norwich as a focus, as opposed to any one person or any larger place. It’s sort of the whole city. And the Huntingtons are a really important clan, even, a network of individuals. Major General Jabez Huntington, again, perhaps the highest-ranked Connecticut officer, gets the honor of the cover. So, you’ll get [to look] forward to seeing that full-length portrait of Jabez Huntington at the State Library as it reproduced here. And Maggie has done an excellent job of cataloging the physical needs that Norwich provided to Washington’s army. 

Now, I mentioned the “From the Archives.” Matt Warshauer, another longtime contributor and board member at Central Connecticut State, has done an incredible job, really, first of all, in his work at Central Connecticut State, with a conference and a series of events and his own speaking. But here he’s gone another step and provided a look at over 30 clippings, and they are all from the Connecticut Courant, now the Hartford Courant, but then just the Connecticut Courant, that show in the years 1775 and 1776 the road to the Revolution as it was published, and he finds really interesting evidence of how the publisher Ebenezer Watson changed the masthead to remove references to the British crown much earlier than you might expect, as early as January 1776, as “Common Sense,” Thomas Paine’s pamphlet was circulating colonies. So just again, by reading a series of clippings, without much scholarly apparatus, Warshauer makes a strong case for Connecticut’s early place right up there with Massachusetts in calling for revolution. So, it’s well worth the read. 

Our book review section is really strong, thanks to Dr. Kathryn Angelica. Katie has actually brought four Revolutionary-themed books into a kind of mini-conversation around new works in Connecticut history, and it gets to some of those battles that I mentioned take place later in this 250 moment, one at Ridgefield is important, the largest of the battles on Connecticut soil during the war and often forgotten, as well as Benedict Arnold’s turncoat trader raid on New London, where he once lived. So that’s a bittersweet and tragic ending to Connecticut’s story. The last major conflict is a traitor’s homecoming, as one author calls it. 

We have our reports from our president, which includes reference to ASCH’s own participation in a Revolutionary Connecticut conference, as well as another Revolutionary-themed report from Rebecca Tabor on Connecticut History Day, a local and state competition, and Rebecca tells us about how our students did at the national competition down at College Park, Maryland. So, all in all, another special issue I think we can all be proud of in Connecticut history, complementing so many other publications, articles, commemorations, and while we’re not in time for July 4th on this issue, nor were we intending to be, we think it’s going to be its lasting value to scholarship to help people understand the many facets of Connecticut and 1776. 

Mary Warner: So, I’m curious if there are also any previous articles published in the journal and past issues that come to mind as especially relevant this year. 

Thomas Balcerski: Yes, well, as I mentioned, the Connecticut History, as it was then called, newsletter, then journal, began in the early 1970s. So, it was actually present and publishing in 1976 during the bicentennial, and you might not be surprised to know that those years, especially in the early, mid, and later ’70s, a block of Connecticut History was devoted to the Revolution and book reviews of revolutionary Connecticut topics continue well into the 1980s. We find also historians sort of reassessing in historiographic essays and in other volumes Connecticut’s revolutionary history to the 1980s and ’90s. As different state historians come and go—these are professors at University of Connecticut, as well as the official historian of the state—often their contributions are on the state’s history and include a piece of Revolutionary Connecticut, so you’ll find pieces looking at the scholarship of our state historians all through the different issues. 

And again, as we find, colonial history is probably our strongest area, so while the Revolution may not be the primary focus of any one article into the 2000s and 2010s and even the last few issues, often there is an element of Connecticut and the Revolution present in the storytelling. So, I would say that it’s infused throughout the last 50-plus years of the journal’s history, and that, through keyword searches and browsing on the database Scholarly Publishing Collective, you can probably spend hours, if you wanted to, just reading and learning about Connecticut’s revolutionary history, through the journal’s many rich offerings. 

Mary Warner: Yes, and speaking of the journal’s history, CHR also has an anniversary in 2026. The journal is in its 65th volume year. Do you have any thoughts you’d like to share about the journal’s publishing history, its place in the field, or any major milestones that have been reached? 

Thomas Balcerski: Well, historians love to quibble about dates. And I could not tell you what was being published in 1961. It’s interesting that different, you know, different ways to count it. As I said, this journal began as a newsletter, and we have some of the very earliest pages. This would be like a two-page thing only. It kind of takes more traditional form into the 1970s, and that’s kind of, in some ways, where I consider the beginning, just like the Association for the Study of Connecticut History also forms in the early 1970s and is kind of an analog to the efforts happening at the university level. So, in the sense that we’re all celebrating different types of anniversaries constantly, it’s nice to take stock of this journal and its important contributions through the years. I’d say most importantly has been the expansion of Connecticut history. One of my predecessors, Dr. Cecelia Buckey, made it her kind of mission to bring the 20th century into conversation. That may seem an obvious thing, and it may seem that, of course, the 20th century is history, but as I mentioned, there’s a strong emphasis on colonial and the early republic. So, there has been and was, through the 1990s, an overemphasis, you might say, on early American topics. And that’s where I think the new issues really have done some good work. And now, I’m happy to say I’m getting submissions that even include topics into the 21st century. 

So, I think being able to break out of the colonial shell has been one of the, you know, important milestones for this journal, as it becomes a holistic journal about all of Connecticut history, really from the beginning until the present. 

Mary Warner: Along with the journal’s fascinating articles, you mentioned this section a little earlier, but one of my favorite parts of the journal is the yearly reporting in the fall issue of the initiatives, programs, and contests that students across the state participate in for Connecticut History Day. Can you tell us a little bit more about that, and maybe mention a few of the memorable ways schools have celebrated Connecticut History Day? 

Thomas Balcerski: Connecticut History Day is, in some ways, a year-round operation. It’s part of the old statehouse and the Center for Democracy in downtown Hartford. Rebecca Tabor, who works for that organization, has it as her primary mission the programming, implementation, and administration of Connecticut History Day. It’s a much bigger task than you might think. It requires 6 or 7, depending on the year, regional contests around the state—each on a different day or weekend, so that’s a multiweek effort—the coordination of all the judges and all the volunteers, the students, the teachers. Each event features hundreds of people, so it’s really event planning, for one thing. 

The state competition, which is usually held at Central Connecticut State in New Britain, is another major event, because you have now the winners of each of the local contests coming together, and that’s where it gets difficult. Having judged at these levels that the student work is so excellent that differentiating winners at that level becomes even harder, but we have to. Because at that point, we are trying to pick the very best of Connecticut to go forward to the National History Day in, usually, it’s Maryland. And so, with 4,700 students to start, you might wonder how many students end up going to the national contest. Only 96, if you can believe it, and they represent 54 different towns across the state. So, still a pretty large contingent. That’s more than one bus for sure when they go down there to Maryland. It’s something that we’re very proud of as well. 

Mary Warner: Oh, it must be really difficult to narrow those down. 

Thomas Balcerski: And yes, in addition to the larger group of 97 or so that go down there, we had several students win national-level awards at the junior and senior level, and we report on those in this issue of the journal. So, truly, Connecticut produces excellent young historians, and we’re glad to celebrate them whenever we can. 

Mary Warner: That’s so great to hear. The journal also has another unique section called, “From the Archives.” These pieces are often written by Connecticut’s librarians and archivists. Why is it important for the journal to highlight archival work with this section? 

Thomas Balcerski: Right, and we do encourage, especially those who work in local historical societies, at the state archive, university archives, to tell us what you’re finding. And that’s the important part, is this is new stuff, for the most part. We find that every day, new historical evidence is uncovered, and it takes years, in some cases, for that to find the right home. So it might be that someone is going through an attic and locates a letter from the 18th century that’s been in the family’s possession for generations and decides maybe someone would like to see this. And perhaps it leads to a relationship with an archive at the local or state level and even a donation, or perhaps a sale. And all that’s good because it means that that will be preserved for generations to come. 

But what happens when that document is accessioned and cataloged is that it becomes kind of tucked away with the thousands, if not millions, of other documents at these large institutions in some cases. And no one will ever remember it, except for perhaps the person who first found it. By creating transcripts, by putting a focus on the visual, we preserve as well and expand the reach of that document.

Now, I mentioned Professor Warshauer’s “From the Archive” section on the Connecticut Courant. That’s a really good example of something that’s actually quite accessible and well known, but without the historian going through it and picking out important evidence from the Courant, it would take a reader hours, if not days, to read the same number of articles. So, it can also be that the selection of evidence, the selection of the documents that goes into the archival article, is of value as well. So yes, you could find these same pieces from the Courant as did Professor Warshauer, but he’s done it for you, and he’s done it through databases that not everyone has access to, too. I mean, so it’s great that we have things digitized and preserved, but if you don’t have the same access to early American newspapers or JSTOR, it’s also not necessarily as easy for you to get it. So, in a way, too, we’re planning for the digital access question that becomes ever so important over time, as much as the physical access. 

Mary Warner: Yeah, it’s always a really interesting section to see. I also wanted to give us a chance to highlight the journal’s past special issues, the most recent of which was Volume 64, Issue 2, on “Connecticut Women’s Political and Economic Experience.” Where does the inspiration for these issues come from? And are there any others that you already have planned for the future? 

Thomas Balcerski: This is an instance where, I have to say, an embarrassment of riches and of interest has fueled special issues. I did not originate the idea for “Connecticut Women’s Political and Economic Experience.” It came from a past editor, I’ve mentioned her already, Dr. Cecelia Buckey. And Cecelia and her co-editor, Elizabeth Hohl, both of whom worked for decades at Fairfield University as colleagues, felt that in this commemoration moment we were having, to quote Abigail Adams, “Remember the ladies.” And Liz and Cecelia have done that in a way that only they could as teachers of women’s history, as scholars of Connecticut history. They went through over 25 years of journal articles and picked what they think are the most representative samples. So, it’s an anthology issue, which is something we haven’t done before. It’s a much larger issue, about 3 times the length of our normal issue, and it is also really nicely arranged with introductory essays that allow for teachers to assign these articles or to teach these articles as content at the secondary and post-secondary level. So, it’s didactic in nature, as well as something we can just say, “We have done our part to remember Connecticut women’s history.” At the same time, the revolutionary history is happening, so it forces us to reckon with women in Connecticut’s history, and I think that’s probably where the special issues are going.

Sometimes there are clusters of submissions that come in that compel an editor to think of it as a theme. And for me, I have now 3 articles in the pipeline that draw on different aspects of Connecticut’s African American history—another rich topic that has had its own scholarly outpouring in the last 25 years or so, but that maybe hasn’t been arranged as a special issue before. The same could be true of Native history or of LGBTQ history in Connecticut. So, while on the one hand, a Call for Papers is one way to promote such issues, and you may see those in future, it also is about organic interest, what’s happening, and about being proactive and soliciting authors who you know work in this area to submit. Sometimes a special issue just comes together because of the time and place, other times it’s organic and even if it’s not labeled as a special issue, you might find that certain themes are more strongly emerging, issue to issue. 

Mary Warner: Really interesting to get kind of a behind-the-scenes peek. As we mentioned earlier a couple times throughout the podcast, Connecticut History Review is the official journal of the Association for the Study of Connecticut History, or ASCH. For any listeners who aren’t already familiar with the organization, can you give a brief description of the work that ASCH does, and how anyone interested can find out more? 

Thomas Balcerski: ASCH is a really important organization for sustaining Connecticut’s history, and it’s composed of a diverse group of educators at, really, the middle, secondary, and post-secondary level; museum professionals; historical societies; and largely through institutional subscriptions at university libraries through the database Scholarly Publishing Collective and other sources. So, I would say that the point of ASCH is for people in Connecticut to come together who care about Connecticut history.

ASCH runs an annual event, sometimes it takes the form of a conference, sometimes it’s kind of co-sponsored conferencing, or perhaps even a lecture that ASCH has signed onto. Our upcoming lecture will be on October 22nd at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History in Hartford. This will be Dr. Michael Hattem of Yale University talking, fittingly enough, about an America250 theme. He is one of the leading scholars of early American history and the legacy of the Declaration of Independence, and his talk will bear on the memory of the Revolution. So, a timely talk that ASCH is going to promote as its event for the fall.

ASCH had a spring conference where it was a partner with Central Connecticut State University, then Matt Warshauer, whom I mentioned, had his conference there in March. We’ve also participated in the Connecticut250 Commission events through different programming. The Center for Connecticut Studies, for example, co-hosted a conference with Connecticut Explored and ASCH back in fall 2025 at Eastern Connecticut State. This focused on people of color in Revolutionary Connecticut. 

So, ASCH has a responsibility, a charge from its founding days to remember Connecticut history, to interrogate it, to listen, and to learn. I think it’s a really important organization. It’s also one that is seeking active new membership, so for anyone listening to this, if you haven’t been an ASCH member, if your ASCH membership has fallen behind, I encourage you to resubscribe. And if you do, you get, as a benefit, two copies, one in the fall, one in the spring, of Connecticut History Review annually, as well as other discounts for attending ASCH events. 

Mary Warner: Yeah, thank you for that, and we’ll also include a link to the ASCH membership page on the transcript of this podcast, so anyone who’s interested, check out the transcript on our blog. And finally, before we go, I was wondering if you have any projects that you’re working on outside of the journal that you would like to share with listeners? 

Thomas Balcerski: Well, as a historian working in Connecticut, living in Connecticut, and now studying Connecticut, I find myself almost unexpectedly being drawn into new projects. My own work previously had been on the presidency, particularly during the Civil War era. And as I have delved more deeply into Connecticut history, I find that presidential history is actually a topic that has a surprising and unique application. In fact, one president was born in Connecticut, I won’t say who just yet, and another spent a very a large part of his childhood and formative years in Connecticut, and several others lived here at various points. Usually, the association is Yale University, I’ll say that. 

So, which president was born in Connecticut? Where was he born? I’ll give you another hint, there is a Yale connection. So, we know it’s New Haven. He’s one of our living presidents. That’s narrowing it down even more. He’s not the current president, so he’s one of now a select handful of former presidents, and just celebrated his 80th birthday, which… also doesn’t really narrow it, I know, there’s a few that age. But I’m talking about George W. Bush. Bush was born in Connecticut, a fact that he doesn’t talk about too often. So that’s an interesting story in its own right, how a Connecticut Yankee transplanted to Midland, Texas, transcends, in some ways, his New England upbringing, and in some other ways, is very emblematic and representative of it. 

So, I write about the Bushes for an article that’s coming out in the fall in Connecticut Explored, our sister magazine. And I’ve written also for the ConnecticutHistory.org Encyclopedia, a project of Connecticut Humanities, our federation for humanities work in the state. So, it is interesting for me to kind of put the lens of presidential history on Connecticut, and to see what comes out. And beyond that, as I said, the classes I teach, the students I work with, they’re generating new topics and research as well, so I’m always finding out new things about the state just semester to semester at Eastern Connecticut State. 

Mary Warner: Thank you, yeah, that all sounds really interesting.

Thank you so much for joining us today, and a big thank you to our listeners for tuning in to learn more about Connecticut History Review. If you’re interested in submitting your own work, or to find out more about the journal, please visit go.illinois.edu/CHR, and consider writing to your librarian to recommend that they subscribe to Connecticut History Review. 

For further reading on American history, the University of Illinois Press is also the publisher of Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Utah Historical Quarterly, Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, and Journal of American Ethnic History. We also publish related books that we recently highlighted in a series of blog posts in July. 

You can view all of these and more at press.uillinois.edu. Thank you.