Rebecca Onion
Rebecca Onion, who runs Slate’s history blog The Vault, is a writer and academic living in Ohio. Follow her on Twitter.
The Vault
Jan. 27 2015 9:22 AMA Victorian Argument That Snow Is Holy, Illustrated by a Beautiful Catalog of Flakes Rebecca Onion
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Jan. 21 2015 2:32 PMBeguiling 19th-Century Space Art, Made by a Self-Taught Astronomical ObserverRebecca Onion
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Jan. 14 2015 12:24 PMPitching a Potential Donor, Shackleton Sketched This Expedition Map Rebecca Onion
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Jan. 9 2015 11:56 AMPretty Tree Maps Showing the State of American Forests in 1884 Rebecca Onion
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Jan. 5 2015 12:11 PMHow Photographers Tried to Capture the Terror of Night Zeppelin Raids During WWIRebecca Onion
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Dec. 30 2014 12:58 PMFive More Digital Archives and Historical Exhibits We Loved in 2014Rebecca Onion
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Dec. 24 2014 11:35 AMA Senator’s Open Christmas Letter to the Racially Divided City of Boston, 1974Rebecca Onion
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Dec. 22 2014 12:00 PMBlind Kids’ Experiences at the Early–20th-Century Museum of Natural History, in PhotosRebecca Onion
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Dec. 19 2014 9:29 AMThe Most Beautiful and Intelligent Historical Coffee-Table Books of 2014Rebecca Onion
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Dec. 18 2014 12:10 PMA Detailed, Majestic Diagram of Two British Ships of War, From an 18th-Century EncyclopediaRebecca Onion
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Dec. 11 2014 12:47 PMAn Inventory of Robert E. Lee’s Personal Property, Left in His Mansion and Seized by the GovernmentRebecca Onion
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Jan. 23 2015 10:01 AMThe Info-Dense Maps Civilians Used to Follow WWII From the Home FrontRebecca Onion
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Jan. 18 2015 11:45 PMFlyers for the Campaigns Martin Luther King Was Working on When He Was AssassinatedRebecca Onion
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Jan. 7 2015 10:43 AMThe Beautiful Geometry of 18th-Century Forts, Built by Britain in the American ColoniesRebecca Onion
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Jan. 6 2015 1:05 PMA List of Diseases and Afflictions Suffered By Young Factory Workers in Chicago, 1895Rebecca Onion
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Dec. 31 2014 10:18 AMA Beautifully Illustrated Costume Catalog From 16th-Century France Rebecca Onion
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Dec. 29 2014 2:21 PMFive of 2014’s Most Compelling Digital History Exhibits and ArchivesRebecca Onion
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Dec. 23 2014 10:57 AMHopeful Hand-Embroidered Christmas Cards, Sent Home From the Front During WWI Rebecca Onion
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Dec. 19 2014 12:30 PMA Vision of the Utter Chaos That Was Early–19th-Century FirefightingRebecca Onion
History
Dec. 17 2014 10:02 AMA Gift Guide for Young HistoriansThe books that made scholars want to devote their future to examining the past.Rebecca Onion
Ten Years in Your Ears
Dec. 14 2014 9:01 PMThe 25 Best Podcast Episodes EverThe most moving, hilarious, and heartbreaking works of podcasting genius.David Haglund and Rebecca Onion
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Dec. 9 2014 10:52 AMAn Early Arctic Explorer's Dramatic Drawings of the Frozen NorthRebecca Onion