The Small Cities Conference has generated the following recent publications:
- The Small City Experience in the Midwest, special issue of the Indiana Magazine of History 99:4 (December, 2003), eds. James J. Connolly and E. Bruce Geelhoed.
- Seventy Five Years of Middletown, special issue of the Indiana Magazine of History 101:3 (September, 2005), ed. James J. Connolly.
- Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2008), ed. Kenneth R. Hall.
- Decentering Urban History: Peripheral Cities in the Modern World, special issue of the Journal of Urban History (November, 2008), ed. James J. Connolly.
- The Growth of Non-Western Cities: Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900-1900 (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2011), ed. Kenneth R. Hall.
- After the Factory: The Reinvention of Industrial Small Cities (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2010 (Paperback 2012)), ed. James J. Connolly.