| Sharon Z. Alter | First Ladies as Activists and Leaders |
| Sharon Z. Alter | Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Howell Davis: Civil War and Its Aftermath |
| Sharon Z. Alter | Three Wartime First Ladies: Madison, Lincoln, and Wilson |
| Penelope Bingham | Thanksgiving: The Great American Holiday |
| Penelope Bingham | Whatever Happened to Tuna Noodle Casserole? |
| Penelope Bingham | Who Cooks? American Cookbooks and Changes in Gender Roles |
| Timothy Connors | Stephen A. Douglas: The Little Giant |
| Simon Cordery | Mother Jones and the Development of Unions in Illinois |
| Antonio Delgado | Early Mexican Chicago: Missing Pages of History |
| Antonio Delgado | Lincoln and His Times: A Pan-American View |
| Antonio Delgado | The Impact of the Mexican Revolution on the United States |
| Mark Dvorak | Once I Had an Old Banjo |
| Mark Dvorak | The American Folk Song |
| Lewis Erenberg | Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire |
| Lewis Erenberg | The Greatest Fight of Our Generation: Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling |
| Charles F. Fanning | Dueling Ethnic Cultures: The Irish Contribution to Chicago’s Century of Progress World’s Fair 1933-34 |
| Charles F. Fanning | George McManus' Maggie and Jiggs: The Comics as Social History |
| Edward F. Finch | Running Silent, Running Deep: The American Submarine War Against Japan, 1941-1945 |
| Edward F. Finch | The Civil War at Sea |
| Erik Gellman | Race Tracks: Civil Rights and the Arena of Public Transit |
| Erik Gellman | The Panthers and Beyond: The Wider Vision of Black Power and Economic Justice in 1960s Chicago |
| Tony Gerard | Removing the Cherokee - A Soldier's story |
| Tony Gerard | With Lewis and Clark - Jean Baptiste Le Junesse |
| Bucky Halker | This Land is Your Land: Woody Guthrie and the Great American Folksong |
| John E. Hallwas | Work as a Struggle and as a Meaningful Experience in the Writings of Carl Sandburg and Studs Terkel |
| Mark D. Hanson | The Right to Fight as Equals: The 99th Pursuit Squadron and the Creation of the Tuskegee Airmen |
| Nancy L. Huse | Ida B. Wells: Our Fearless American Foremother (1862-1931) |
| Clarence Lang | Writing the Black Freedom Struggle in the Midwest |
| Norman Moline | Mobility and the Small Town 1900-1930 |
| Denese M. Neu | From Civil Rights to Housing Advocacy |
| Glenna Schroeder-Lein | Disease, Wounds, Hospitals, and Hygiene: The Medical Side of the Civil War |
| Ronald Solberg | For America's Traveling Salesman It Has Been a Laughing Matter |
| Dennis A. Stroughmatt | Mussels, Moonshine, and Music: Mississippi Valley Migrant Life in the Early Twentieth Century |
| Chris Vallillo | Stephen Foster and the Rise of American Music |
| James Wolfinger | Double V: African Americans' Quest for Victory at Home and Abroad in World War II |
| James Wolfinger | Going to Chicago: African Americans and the Great Migration |
| James Wolfinger | The Freedom Rides at Fifty: Remembering an Early Challenge to Segregation |