We are pleased to announce the theme for the second issue of Public: A Future-Oriented Democratic Revival. Like the first issue, this issue is linked to Imagining America’s annual conference, this year in Syracuse New York, from Oct 4-6, 2013. Submissions to the journal do not need to be directly connected to conference submissions, and anyone is encouraged to submit to Public, whether they submitted to the conference or not. The submission information is contained in the Call for Submissions link on the journal site, and the submission link will become active when the submission window opens on August 15th, 2013.