Rebecca Onion
Rebecca Onion, who runs Slate’s history blog The Vault, is a writer and academic living in Ohio. Follow her on Twitter.
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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
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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
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Dec. 5 2014 12:02 PMNifty Methods for Smuggling Contraband, From a Manual for WWII-Era British Spies Rebecca Onion
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Dec. 1 2014 12:46 PMHow to Employ Women in Government Jobs: Postwar Advice Drawn From the American ExperienceRebecca 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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Dec. 8 2014 1:26 PMFDR’s First Draft of His “Day of Infamy” Speech, With His NotesRebecca Onion
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Dec. 3 2014 12:15 PMMap Shows Where the Juvenile Delinquents Lived in Depression-Era D.C.Rebecca Onion
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Nov. 28 2014 9:23 AMA 17th-Century Argument for the Many Virtues of Coffee, Chocolate, and TeaRebecca Onion