Rebecca Onion
Rebecca Onion is Slate’s history writer and runs the site’s history blog, The Vault. She lives in Ohio.
Rebecca Onion is Slate’s history writer and runs the site’s history blog, The Vault. She lives in Ohio.
Roundtable
The childhood scribblings of writers far more famous than I can be found online in the vast attic of digital archives. Most of the juvenilia available on the Web date to the nineteenth century, when middle- and upper-class childhood was increasingly prized, and kids’ ephemera more likely to be saved. More
Roundtable
Whenever a newspaper story came up short, editors reached for the squibs. More
Roundtable
During the mid-twentieth century, the twin concerns of space exploration and environmentalism found a curious mascot: the space whale. More