My name is Rebecca Onion, and I’m a staff writer at Slate. I cover history from a number of angles at the magazine: through interviews with historians, through historical research and reporting of my own, and sometimes in collaboration with historians. One type of project…
As of this week, I’ll be shifting my role at Slate. I’ll still be writing the Vault, but I’ll also be contributing more frequently to the History section, writing longer pieces on a regular basis. I wanted to write a bit here about my understanding…