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Rebecca Onion, who runs Slate’s history blog The Vault, is a writer and academic living in Philadelphia. Send her an email or follow her on Twitter.

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March 11 2014 11:00 PMMark Twain's Recommended Reading for Young PeopleRebecca Onion
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March 10 2014 10:45 AMThe Exquisite Wistfulness of 19th-Century Vegetarian Personal Ads
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March 6 2014 12:35 PMSusan B. Anthony's Indictment for Voting While Female
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March 4 2014 12:35 PMHand-Drawn Early-20th-Century Charts Showing the State of African-American Economic LifeRebecca Onion
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Feb. 28 2014 1:45 PMA 1940s Board Game for French Kids Taught Tactics for Successful ColonialismRebecca Onion
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Feb. 26 2014 12:45 PMHistorical Chart of the Causes, Milestones, and Battles of the Revolutionary WarRebecca Onion
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Feb. 25 2014 9:00 AMWhen Wolf-Killing Was Legal, and Paid WellRebecca Onion
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Feb. 21 2014 1:15 PMThe CIA's 1961 "Personality Sketch" of Nikita KhrushchevRebecca Onion
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Feb. 19 2014 2:01 PMA 19th-Century Mother's Handwritten Record of Her Babies' Childhood IllnessesRebecca Onion
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Feb. 16 2014 11:45 PMThe Lincoln Speeches a Mourning Nation Most Loved to RememberRebecca Onion
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Feb. 12 2014 10:00 AMCommon 19th-Century Arguments Against Women's Suffrage, Neatly RefutedRebecca Onion
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Feb. 10 2014 5:05 PMA 1930 Chinese Comic-Book Edition of All Quiet on the Western FrontRebecca Onion
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Feb. 5 2014 11:52 PMSnapshots of HistoryWildly popular accounts like @HistoryInPics are bad for history, bad for Twitter, and bad for you.Rebecca Onion
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Feb. 4 2014 1:20 PMDramatic Art Deco Illustrations of the Phobias of Modern LifeRebecca Onion
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Jan. 31 2014 12:15 PMAn Eccentric Millionaire's 1875 Pork Map of the United StatesRebecca Onion
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March 11 2014 9:00 AMAn Itsy-Bitsy Early 18th-Century Pocket GlobeRebecca Onion
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March 7 2014 11:45 AMThe "Can't Get There From Here" Railroad Map of 1854 New EnglandRebecca Onion
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March 5 2014 1:00 PMThe "Coffin Handbill" Andrew Jackson's Enemies Used to Circulate Word of His "Bloody Deeds"Rebecca Onion
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March 3 2014 4:45 PMHow to Build a POW Camp for Captured GermansRebecca Onion
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Feb. 27 2014 12:50 PMHow to Keep Your Neighbors From Panicking After the Bomb DropsRebecca Onion
Wild Things
Feb. 26 2014 12:30 PMBizarre and Colorful Vintage Circus Posters Featuring Animal PerformersRebecca Onion
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Feb. 24 2014 10:00 AMA Beautiful 1880s Geography Game for the "Rising Generation"Rebecca Onion
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Feb. 20 2014 12:15 PMConvicts Transported to Australia Left Loved Ones With These Emotional Tokens of Their AffectionRebecca Onion
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Feb. 19 2014 8:50 AMShould We Destroy Our Ivory Art Out Of Guilt? Prince William Seems to Think So.Rebecca Onion
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Feb. 13 2014 11:00 PMVirginia Poe's Sad Acrostic Valentine for Edgar AllanRebecca Onion
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Feb. 11 2014 2:25 PMShirley Temple's Earliest Movies Are Really Hard to WatchRebecca Onion
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Feb. 6 2014 2:30 PMAn Enlisted Woman's Quiet Sketches of Friends Serving in the British Royal Navy During WWIIRebecca Onion
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Feb. 5 2014 12:07 PMThe First Modern Organizational Chart Is a Thing of BeautyRebecca Onion
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Feb. 3 2014 12:00 PMA Beautiful, False 19th-Century Pedigree for George WashingtonRebecca Onion
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Jan. 28 2014 12:15 PMA Trove of Photographs of African-American Community Life in Jazz-Age New OrleansRebecca Onion

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