Rebecca Onion
Rebecca Onion, Slate’s history writer, also runs the site's history blog, The Vault. Follow her on Twitter.
The Vault
March 5 2015 9:25 AMMark Twain’s Memory Builder Game Will (Probably Not) Help You Learn Historical Dates Rebecca Onion
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March 3 2015 12:49 PMA Tragic Catalog of 100 Mostly Miserable 19th-Century Marriages Rebecca Onion
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Feb. 25 2015 11:44 AMA 1964 Document Tallying Penalties for Sodomy and Fornication Across the United StatesRebecca Onion
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Feb. 18 2015 9:36 AMDelicately Preserved Slices of Wood Illustrating a Late-19th-Century Book of American ForestsRebecca Onion
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Feb. 11 2015 10:03 AMAn 1864 Letter to American Women, Rallying Support For A Huge Anti-Slavery Petition DriveRebecca Onion
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Feb. 5 2015 9:36 AMBiographical Cartoons of Notable Black Americans, Drawn to Promote Unity During WWIIRebecca Onion
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Feb. 3 2015 9:14 AMLate 19th-Century Maps Show Measles Mortality Before VaccinesRebecca Onion
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Jan. 30 2015 10:07 AMThe Papers Late-19th-Century Chinese Immigrants Had to Carry To Prove Their Legal StatusRebecca Onion
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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
History
March 4 2015 11:45 PMRed SummerIn 1919, white Americans visited awful violence on black Americans. So black Americans decided to fight back.Rebecca Onion
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Feb. 27 2015 11:46 AMA Tourist Map of Occupied Paris, Issued to German Soldiers During WWIIRebecca Onion
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Feb. 20 2015 11:06 AMWild, Weird, and Funny Austin Music Posters of the 1960s and 1970sRebecca Onion
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Feb. 4 2015 10:35 AMAn Anti-Suffrage Children’s Book From 1910, Mocking “Baby” ActivistsRebecca Onion
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Feb. 2 2015 1:14 PMThe Slips of Paper That Called 19th-Century Militias to Muster Rebecca Onion
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Jan. 28 2015 11:55 AMJefferson’s Outline of the Differences Between Northerners and Southerners Rebecca 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
Science
March 6 2015 12:31 PM
The Kids Are All Right
Have we made our children into moral monsters?
Daniel Engber