Passing Through, Putting Down Roots — Summer 2022
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Preserving Historic Craftsmanship — Spring 2022
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Don’t Take Our Word For It!
By Elizabeth Normen There is perhaps nothing more powerful than personal testimony, and so, in…
Fall 2021: Victorian Connecticut—”Excess and Empire”
HOG RIVER JOURNAL: Fall 2021 — “Excess and Empire” (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2021…
No Place Like Home – Summer 2021
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Take a Hike!
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Our Readers Still Love Print — But Virtual is Good, Too
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Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of World War II
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Connecticut & the Vote to Ratify the 19th Amendment
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The Congregational Church: Nothing More Connectican
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What About the Struggle for Black Suffrage in Connecticut?
By Ramin Ganeshram and Elizabeth Normen LINK to Op-Ed as it appeared in The Hartford Courant,…
Disrupters in Small Packages
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2019-2020 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Disruptions are…
Venture & Meg Smith–A Connecticut Family
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Family” is the…
Contested Land–An Issue Full of Surprises
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Spring 2019: Water–Connecticut’s Big Story
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Are You Fanning Your Creative Spark?
By Elizabeth Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2018-2019 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Long before…
Where the Constitution of 1818 Fell Short
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Sports Give Connecticut a National Profile
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Connecticut history revealed down a long driveway, under 10 feet of water, and in a barn
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2018 SUBSCRIBE/BUY THE ISSUE I’m a…
A Valentine to You
by Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2017-2018 Happy Valentine’s Day! What better theme…
CTExplored Featured on WTNH with Ann Nyberg!
WTNH’s Ann Nyberg recently interviewed Betsy Fox about Connecticut-made cocktail shakers, the subject of Betsy’s…
60 issues, 3,800 pages, Hundreds of Stories
by Elizabeth J. Normen, Fall 2017 With this issue, Connecticut Explored celebrates its 15th anniversary!…
Connecticut’s First Prohibition Law
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2017 The theme of this issue—food…
Connecticut in World War I, Part II
By Elizabeth J. Normen, Publisher (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2017 This issue is produced…
CT Explored Fighting “Fake History” With New Textbook for Third/Fourth Grade
We’re as shocked as anyone that some students in Connecticut are reading a whitewashed history…
The Influence of Connecticut in the American West
By Leah S. Glaser (c) Connecticut Explored, Inc. Winter 2016-2017 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Connecticut Explored…
True Crime Stories
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2016 Our Puritan forefathers dealt with…
We’ll Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends
By Elizabeth J. Normen As our Fall issue went to press, we receive word that, due…
Even with History, Go Local
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Summer 2016 Anyone who knows historian Bill Hosley…
Our Hard-Won Right to Vote
by Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Spring 2016 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In this presidential…
Launched from a Connecticut Kitchen
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc., Winter 2015-2016 In the Winter 2015-2016 issue,…
Time, Talent, Treasure
By Elizabeth J. Normen FALL 2015 I was raised in a philanthropic family. That doesn’t…
Historic Preservation: It’s not just about buildings
By Elizabeth J. Normen Summer 2015 Is historic preservation only about saving old buildings from…
The Upside to Our Proximity to New York City
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Spring 2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One upside to…
WWI’s Impact on Connecticut
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2014/2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Knowledge Wins!” proclaims…
Can You Trust What You Read?
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Why Connecticut Didn’t Go Dutch
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Is it Best to be First?
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Work: Are We Making Progress?
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2013/2014 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! How often…
The Diversity of Connecticut
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Why the Sperm Whale is our State Animal
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Appreciate Historic Connecticut By Bike!
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One of…
The Emancipation Proclamation: Who Celebrated in Connecticut?
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2012-2013 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! True or…
Are We the If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It State?
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! 40 never…
War of 1812: Was This Our Finest Hour?
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Anniversaries provide…
Nutmegger or Connectican?
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Yea for 10 Years!
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2011/2012 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! You know…
Remembering 9/11
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Is It Ok To Admit You Like Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
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What About Connecticut in the Civil War?
By Matthew Warshauer (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2011 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! One might not…
Embracing Technology in the History Field
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History Can Lead to Land Preservation
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Facing Hard Times
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Modernism & The Austin House
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Whalers Fans and Our New Name
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Our New Name & We Join Facebook
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Our Salty and Seafaring History
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored, Spring 2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! So often, the…
Connecticut’s Rogues—and Reformers, too
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2008/2009 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! The editorial…
Tooting our Horn, Musically Speaking
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Connecticut’s National Park Quest
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Getting There: a Quick Transportation History
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Trailing Halyards & Nutmeg Tales
by Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2007/2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I recently…
We Made it!
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! I was…
The Three Rs and “Aha” Moments
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Summer 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Without fail,…
A Passion for Art History
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Fire! A Threat and a Resource
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! After wandering…
Stories of Great Escapes & Landscapes: Summer 2006
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The Way We Ate
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Architectural Treasures Saved, Threatened, and Demolished
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2005/2006 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Some themes…
Liberty & Justice For All
By Elizabeth J. Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2005 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! “Washington slept…
A Connectican in Hawaii
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The Silicon Valley of the 19th Century
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Art History 101
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Politics & Power
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All in a Day’s Work
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STORIES FROM THE HOG RIVER
An Apple a Day There’s something deliciously macabre about the history of healthcare. Shivers ran…
On the Home Front
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Women’s Work
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Pastimes and Great Baseball Memories
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Do We Try too Hard to Preserve the Past?
By Elizabeth Normen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Built It/Razed It…
Introducing the Magazine of Connecticut History
(c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Fall 2002 NOTE: Connecticut Explored began in fall 2002 as Hog…