Members of the Indiana Historical Society have the opportunity to receive a number of periodicals. Information about each one is found below. If you are interested in becoming a member, please click here.

Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History
The Hoosier Genealogist: CONNECTIONS
Black History News and Notes
Indiana Magazine of History

Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History

Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History is an award-winning popular history magazine published quarterly as a benefit of membership in the IHS. Conceived as a means of bringing to the public good narrative and analytical history about Indiana in its broader contexts of region and nation, the magazine since 1989 has explored the lives of artists, writers, politicians, performers, soldiers, entrepreneurs, homemakers, reformers, and naturalists.

Traces, which is also available on newsstands throughout the state, has examined the impact of Hoosiers on the nation and the world through such figures as Lew Wallace, Eugene Debs, Gene Stratton-Porter, James Dean, Madam C.J. Walker, and Wendell Willkie, and it has studied the influence on the state of non-Hoosiers such as H.L. Mencken, John Muir, and Harry S. Truman. Just as important, it has featured ordinary Indiana men and women, bringing light to obscure lives and work.

View the 1989–2005 index of Traces (796K PDF)

View a sample copy of Traces (9.3 MB PDF)

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FAMILY HISTORY PUBLICATIONS

THE HOOSIER GENEALOGIST AND THG: The Indiana Historical Society (IHS) published The Hoosier Genealogist (THG), an award-winning quarterly family history journal, from 1961 through 2005. Its successor, THG: CONNECTIONS (CONNECTIONS) was published as a quarterly in 2006 and starting in 2007 is becoming a biannual magazine. It is distributed to IHS members and to organizations across America that exchange historical periodicals with the IHS. THG and CONNECTIONS contain a wealth of information on numerous issues related to family and local history in Indiana. Search online for the Indexes and Contents for THG (2000–2005) or for the Contents for CONNECTIONS issues (2006– ).

ONLINE CONNECTIONS: Starting in fall 2007 the IHS is publishing an online companion to CONNECTIONS. While the magazine features articles on topics such as how to conduct genealogy research and about resources that provide historical context and data for individuals and groups, “Online Connections” will contain indexes with names and other data extracted from primary materials, for example, Bible, marriage, estate, land, church, naturalization, pension, and school records. Online CONNECTIONS will also provide links to many of the digitized versions of the indexed primary materials from the IHS library or links to their collection guides as well as links to many repositories that house Indiana primary sources.

FAMILY HISTORY BOOKS AND ONLINE PUBLICATIONS: The IHS also publishes books and online publications to help genealogical and historical researchers. Helpful book titles include the award-winning Finding Indiana Ancestors: A Guide to Historical Research, the Indiana History series, Maps of Indiana Counties in 1876, Centennial Farms of Indiana, the Indiana Source Book series, and many more. Online Family History Publications include an index to the earliest court order book of the U.S. District Court in Indianapolis. Coming soon will be meeting minutes from the series Abstracts of the Society of Friends in Indiana.

Purchase single issues of THG and CONNECTIONS, 2000–, and purchase IHS Press books from the Basile History Market.

Become an IHS Member and receive a subscription to the award-winning journal, CONNECTIONS, discounts on History Market purchases, and many other valuable benefits.

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Black History News and Notes

Black History News and Notes is a part of the IHS Library's Black History Program, founded in 1979 to collect historical records and personal papers that describe all aspects of Indiana's African-American experience.

The publication, which is now a department in Traces magazine, includes articles on the political, social, and cultural history of blacks in Indiana. Articles and essays in the general fields of black American history and blacks in the Old Northwest, if they have obvious relevance to Indiana, are also eligible for consideration. Black History News and Notes publicizes library collections acquired as a result of the program, as well as historical occurrences that may be of interest to readers.

For more information on Black History News and Notes, please contact the IHS Press.

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Indiana Magazine of History

Published continuously since 1905, the quarterly Indiana Magazine of History is one of the nation's oldest and best-known state historical journals. Today, the IMH features a lively variety of scholarly articles, reviews, interviews, annotated primary documents, and critical essays focused on the enduring issues that face residents of Indiana and the Midwest. Subscribers also receive online access to the journal via The History Cooperative website. The IMH is edited and published at Indiana University, Bloomington, and offered at cost to IHS members. For more information, visit the IMH website.

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