American Heritage - Description: American Heritage brings our past alive with all the heart and soul, intrigue and invention that make America the greatest story ever told. Share in the stories that have built our nation and have reached across generations to create the future we all share today. Published bimonthly in Feb/March, Apr/May, June/July, Aug/Sept, Nov/Dec and monthly in Oct.
Guidelines: Send #10 SASE. Check index if already treated subject. Style stresses readability, accuracy, authenticity. No phone calls.
Submission Needs: Historical. Nonfiction: historical articles by scholars/journalists for intelligent readers, not professional historians. Photos and drawings.
Word Length: 1,500-6,000.
Payment: varies depending on quality.
Address: American Heritage, 28 West 23rd St., New York

American History - Description: Events in the lives of noted History Figures, account of important events in American History, Popular not Scholarly.
Guidelines: SASE.
Word Length: 2000-4000 Words depending on type of article.
Payment: $500-$600.
Address: 6405 Flank Dr. Harrisburg, PA. 17112-2750.

Calliope - Description: Exploring World History. Essays, Historical, Interviews, Travel, Recipes for grade 4 and above.
Guidelines: SASE.
Word Length: 20-25 cents per printed word. 700-800 words for features, 300-600 for supplements, Fiction theme related 1000 words.
Address: 30 Grove Street, Suite C, Peterborough, NH 03458-1454.

Family Tree Magazine - Description: Family Tree Magazine is a general-interest consumer magazine that helps readers discover, preserve and celebrate their family's history. Articles are geared to beginners. Always query with an SASE.
Rights: Buy first rights and online rights.
Payment: Rates vary depending on difficulty of assignment. Offer 25% kill fee.
Address: Editor, Family Tree Magazine, 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati, OH 45236.

Good Old Days - Description: Tells the real stories of the people who lived and grew up in “the good old days” (about 1935-1965). Pictures help.
Word Length: From 500 - 1,500 words.
Payment: Pays $20 - $100.
Address: 306 East Parr Rd., Berne, IN. 46711 or editor@goodolddaysonline.com.

Naval History - Description: A good story with one or several of the following: drama, action, humor, irony, emotion will invariably make it into the magazine more quickly than a "for the record" reminiscence of life at sea.
Word Length: manuscript must have fewer than 3,000 words.
Payment: upon acceptance. The rate of payment varies from $60 to $150 per estimated published page (1,000 words). Book reviews ($75 per review) and pictorials ($250-$500) are commissioned and, although queries are welcome, unsolicited reviews are discouraged. The rate of payment for anecdotes is $25 each.
Address: Email inquiries and manuscripts for Naval History to: articlesubmissions@navalinstitute.org. Mail inquiries, manuscripts for Naval History, and "In Contact" items (letters to the editor) to: Editor-in-Chief, Naval History, U.S. Naval Institute, 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, MD 21402-5034.

Preservation – Description: We are a magazine of travel, history, architecture, the environment, planning/land use, and historic preservation. We think of ourselves as a magazine about place. The writing we publish ranges from straightforward reporting to narrative nonfiction and essays. Bimonthly. No reprints.
Word Length: Articles must be 500-5,000 words.
Rights: Buys one- time and some electronic and archival rights.
Payment: Pays $1/word for features and major departments; $0.50/word for news features and book reviews.
Address: Submit query with clips by mail with SASE or by email at preservation@nthp.org.

Renaissance Magazine - Accepts unsolicited manuscripts related to the Renaissance & Middle Ages, including but not limited to: historical articles, martial arts, travel, interviews with artisans, articles on the SCA & related re-enactment groups, dragons, etc.
Word Length: Average article is approx. 3,000 words.
Payment: $.08 per published word is made upon publication, and $7.50 per published image (photograph or illustration).
Address: Email all queries and submissions to editor@renaissancemagazine.com.

The Copperfield Review - We are a quarterly journal published in Jan., April, July, Oct. We publish historical fiction, poetry, nonfiction & reviews.
Guidelines: We accept simult, multiple & prev. published subs. We reserve right to edit work we publish. No file attachments. All subs pasted into body of e-mail. Subs too large to be sent in one e-mail divided into 2 labeled e-mails. We only take subs via e-mail. A brief bio in 3rd person for each sub.
Poetry: only if based on historical themes.
Nonfiction: Interviews with authors of hist. fiction, essays pertaining to writing life, writing of hist. fiction, historical creative nonfiction.
Reviews: Include title, author, number of pages, publisher, how many quills awarded (on scale of 1-5, 5 is best). Only review of hist. novels.
Submission Needs: Hist. short stories, novel excerpts if can stand on own as short story, poetry, reviews, essays, interviews.
Word Length: Short stories: 3,000 words. Short-shorts: 500-1,000 words. Novel excerpt: 3,000 words. Up to 3 poems. No word limit on nonfiction.
Pay: Not a paying market. Do not charge reading fees.
Rights: We acquire one-time rights.