The December 2003 issue of the Indiana Magazine of History, a 99-year-old scholarly journal of state and midwestern history, is a special issue devoted to the history of small cities in the United States. Articles include: "The Small City Experience in the Midwest: An Introduction" by James Connolly and Bruce Geelhoed; "The Small City in American History" by Timothy Mahoney; "A Separate Universe? An Exploratory Effort at Defining the Small City" by John Buenker and Theodore Mesmer; "The Open Forum Movement and Public Learning in Terre Haute and Hammond, Indiana, in the 1920s" by Arthur Meyers; and "Building Networks: Cooperation and Communication Among African Americans in the Urban Midwest, 1860-1910" by Jack Blocker, Jr. For more information or to order copies, contact the editorial office at 812-855-4139 or email (below).