| Simon Cordery | Crossroads of the Nation: The Hidden History of the Railroads of Illinois |
| Antonio Delgado | Early Mexican Chicago: Missing Pages of History |
| Mark Dvorak | The People, Yes |
| Tony Gerard | Crossing Cultures - Jean Baptiste Le Kraskaskia |
| Bucky Halker | Booth Shot Lincoln: Illinois Historical Folksongs of Death and Disaster |
| Bucky Halker | Folksongs of Illinois |
| John E. Hallwas | Desperadoes: Notorious Outlaws of Early Illinois |
| John E. Hallwas | Small-Town Heritage: Life in Illinois Communities, 1870-1920 |
| Sarah S. Marcus | Chicago From the Ground Up |
| Sarah S. Marcus | Chicago on Screen |
| Norman Moline | Evaluation of the Illinois Prairies 1815-1840 |
| Norman Moline | Renewals and Reinventions: River Towns on the Mississippi River |
| Denese M. Neu | The Great Black Migration and Cultural Exports to Illinois |
| Ronald Solberg | The Whizbangs of Oohs and Ahs: Those Magnificent Traveling Salesmen of Illinois |
| Scott Stevens | American Indians in Chicago: Our Legacies, Our Communities |
| Scott Stevens | Colonial Illinois: European and Indigenous Encounters on the Prairies and Woodlands |
| Dennis A. Stroughmatt | Mardi Gras: The 300 Year Old French Creole Tradition |
| Dennis A. Stroughmatt | Play that Hot Fiddle! Old Time Radio and the Life of Southern Illinois Swing Fiddle “Pappy” Wade Ray |
| Chris Vallillo | Abraham Lincoln in Song |
| Gregory Vogel | People and Environments, Past and Present |
| Gregory Vogel | The Archaeology of Disaster |