If you want to write for upcoming Issues:
Each issue has a broad organizing theme. We also welcome theme and article ideas for future issues.
Feature articles are up to 2,500 words in length; departments are 500-750 words long. Honoraria may be available according to the policies of Connecticut Explored.
The magazine does not use footnotes but does require authors to embed citations into their stories. Please become familiar with our style by reading stories from past issues available on our website. Authors are also required to provide images (if possible) or leads on images.
Subscribers
Letters to the editor and story suggestions are welcome. Submit to publisher@ctexplored.org. or mail to Connecticut Explored, c/o Department of History, Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley Street, New Britain, CT 06050.Submission Guidelines
Article proposals are welcome. The proposal should include a working title, a summary of the story, and a proposed word count.
The proposal should address why Connecticut Explored readers should care about this story.
Please submit your proposal using our form. Honoraria are offered according to Connecticut Explored’s policy.
1 page, 450-500 words = $100
2 pages, 750-800 words = $150
4 pages, 1,500 words = $200
6 pages, 2,500 words = $250
What we look for:
All proposals must fit the broad theme of the issue (see below for upcoming themes). Please look at our past articles to make sure your topic does not duplicate articles we have already published within the last 10 years. If you have a different thesis or a different angle on a topic we have covered, you may submit your proposal, but tell us how it is different.
We publish articles about Connecticut history and focus on the historical story. Our articles are not reflections on historical theory, methodology, or pure pedagogy. If how you approached your research affected the story in a meaningful way, you may include it.
If your article is longer than 2500 words or addresses questions of theory or methodology, consider submitting it to the state’s peer-reviewed academic journal, Connecticut History Review, published by the Association for the Study of Connecticut History (ASCH).
Upcoming Themes and Submission Deadlines
Please note that suggested topics under the broad theme are not exclusive of other topics.
Spring 2026: No Theme
Abstracts due by July 1, or until issue is filled. Articles due Nov. 1, 2025.
This issue is open for proposals. Stories might include but are not limited to:
- Town histories that we have not covered
- Stories about immigrant groups. We are especially interested in those we have not covered before.
- Connecticut's Indigenous people, five recognized tribes; Mohican in northwestern CT; Wangunk or Podunk ("River Tribes"), Nehantic (Niantic), Tunxis (Farmington Valley), and Quinnipiac (south central CT) tribes; Wiechquaesgeck in southwestern CT; Pequannock in the Fairfield-Bridgeport through Redding area; Hammonasset in the Guilford to Westbrook area; and Agawam in the north-central area and into MA.
- Music, musical traditions, musicians who came to Connecticut
Summer 2026: Connecticut's role in America's 250th
Abstracts due by Dec 1. Articles due Feb. 1, 2026.
Connecticut's contribution to the founding of the nation
Stories might include:
- Connecticut's contributions to the Declaration of Independence and/or the Continental Congress
- The Connecticut Line in the Continental Army, including camp followers
- Intellectual, economic, or social contributions to the American revolutionary era
- Suffrage or civic participation: women, African Americans, Indigenous people, working-class people
- Music, musical traditions of the Revolutionary War
- Military pensioners, including widows
- Connecticut churches and the American Revolution
Fall 2025: Our Environment
Abstracts due by Feb 25, 2025, or until issue is filled. Articles due May 1, 2025.
Environmental History
Stories might include:
- Photo Essay 500 words with 8 photos
- Energy
- Preservation and conservation, stewardship
- Climate change
- Corporate policy, innovation, adaptation
- Citizen action
- Cultural approaches to the natural environment
- Changes in the land and sea
- History of relationship between economic circumstances and environmental conditions
- Anniversary of King Philip’s War: the impact of the war on the natural environment in CT