Todd Andrlik

Todd Andrlik, founding editor of the Journal of the American Revolution, is author and editor of the bestselling book Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News (Sourcebooks, 2012), which earned three book-of-the-year honors as well as popular and critical acclaim. Andrlik's work has been featured by WSJ, NPR, CNN, C-SPAN, Smithsonian, Slate, Huffington Post, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, TIME, Mount Vernon, Museum of the American Revolution and more.

Among America’s leading Revolutionary War newspaper archivists, Andrlik collaborates with individuals and institutions, including the Library of Congress, to help build private and public collections of these treasured relics. He also takes an active role in their physical conservation. Through a partnership with one of the world's top paper conservators, Andrlik helps save damaged newspapers from loss and restores the artifacts as close as possible to original condition.

Andrlik's passion for newspaper history stems from a career in media and marketing. Andrlik heads the marketing team for one of the nation's largest construction firms. He earned a bachelor's degree in public relations from Illinois State University and an MBA from Roosevelt University. He studied international business at Salzburg College, Austria. He lives in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, with his wife and two children.