The Sampler
SAMPLE ARTICLE: A Presidential July 4th
From the current issue: Where three presidents celebrated our natal day. By Laurie Masciandaro The national press was flabbergasted. “No remote...
SAMPLE ARTICLE: Saving Mark Twain’s House
By Steve Courtney Click here to SUBSCRIBE and read the illustrated story in the Spring 2013 issue Click here for the full table of contents of the Spring...
Winter 2012/2013: Lincoln and The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Winter 2012/2013 Issue By Katherine Kane CLICK HERE TO READ A PDF OF THE ARTICLE AS IT APPEARED IN THE WINTER 12/13 ISSUE CLICK HERE FOR MORE ARTICLES...
SAMPLE ARTICLE: The Unsteady Meaning of “The Land of Steady Habits”
FROM THE STATE HISTORIAN: Walter W. Woodward [originally published in the Fall 2012 issue] Why has “The Land of Steady Habits” endured as a moniker...
News Flash!
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Click on the link below to take our 5 minute survey. Please respond by June 30, 2013. SURVEY LINK If you have any problems, please email publisher@ctexplored.org....
May 22, noon: What Were They Thinking? Hartford Then and Now
Connecticut's Old State House and Connecticut Explored present: Out with the old, in with the new! That's what urban planners thought in the 1960s...
Summer Issue is Here!
The Summer 2013 issue has mailed and will be on newsstands by June 1. Our cover story is Hartford's short-lived amusement park Luna Park. "For four summers...
Spring Issue On Historic Preservation
The Spring 2013 issue's theme is the next wave of historic preservation--focusing on historic sites that are finding new life with new purposes: a modernist...
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