“War Comes to Middlesex: 250 Years On” by Professor, Thomas Balcerski.

Thomas Balcerski
Professor and Director of Center for Connecticut Studies
History

Thomas Balcerski is Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University and Director of the Center for Connecticut Studies. A historian of American politics, he teaches courses on Connecticut history, New England history, U.S. Presidents and First Ladies, and American society and culture. He is the author of Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (Oxford University Press, 2019). His current project looks at the long history of the Democratic Party, America’s oldest partisan organization.
Since 2024, he has served as Editor of Connecticut History Review, the only academic, peer-reviewed, journal devoted to the history of the Nutmeg State. In addition, he serves on the Board of Trustees of Connecticut Explored, an independent non-profit history magazine that tells the stories that have shaped Connecticut’s history, and on the Editorial Board of ConnecticutHistory.org, state public history resource written for a diverse set of readers, ranging from students to educators to history enthusiasts. He is active as a member of the Grant Application Review Committee for Connecticut Humanities, a member of the Connecticut Coalition for History, a judge for Connecticut History Day, and an organizer of the Connecticut State University Making History Conference.
Thomas holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, a master’s degree from SUNY Stony Brook, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. During the 2022-2023 academic year, he held the Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professorship in U.S. History and the Americas at Occidental College and was a long-term fellow at the Huntington Library.