Rebecca Onion

“If ‘Living History’ Role-Plays in the Classroom Can So Easily Go Wrong, Why Do Teachers Keep Assigning Them?” (Slate, May 20, 2019)
“Did We Forget To Memorialize Spanish Flu Because Women Were The Heroes?” (Slate, February 18, 2019)
“Who Were The Pinkertons?” (Slate, February 1, 2019)
“Against ‘Generations’” (Aeon Magazine, May 19, 2015)
“Letters of Note: The Internet’s Idea of History” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2014)

“The Real Story Behind Margot Robbie’s Wild Queen Elizabeth Makeup” (Slate, December 6, 2018)
“Two, Four, Six, Eight, Who Do We Appreciate?: A Modern History of Childhood, in One Postgame Cheer” (Slate, June 4, 2018)
“America’s Lost History of Border Violence” (Slate, May 5, 2016)
“Andrew Jackson’s Adopted Indian Son” (Slate, April 29, 2016)
“America’s Other Original Sin” (Slate, January 18, 2016)
“Boyhood: The Drawings of the 19th-Century Nelson Brothers” (Slate, May 28, 2015)

“Who Are Feminist Baby Books For?” (Slate, October 7, 2019)
“When Did Child Leashes Become Socially Unacceptable?” (Slate, August 5, 2019)
“The Modern Expectation We Should Pretend-Play With Our Children Is Exhausting. Is There A Better Way?” (Slate, March 6, 2019)
“The Troubling Thing About the ‘Fit Mom’ Instagram Community” (Slate, January 18, 2019)
“The Toxic Cuteness of Kidstagram” (Slate, February 16, 2018)
“Avoiding The Scourge of a Million Crappy Plastic Toys” (Slate, January 16, 2018)
“Your Childcare Conundrum is an Anti-Communist Plot” (Slate, June 14, 2017)
“An Ode to Green Slime” (The Atlantic.com, February 6, 2015)
“Honey, You’re Scaring the Kids” (The Appendix, July 22, 2014)

“Why Dickinson Turns A Teenage Poet Into A Sex-Obsessed Rebel” (Slate, October 30, 2019)
“Dismantling the Myth of the ‘Black Confederate’” (Slate, August 30, 2019)
“The Complicated History of Emma Lazarus’ ‘The New Colossus’” (Slate, August 15, 2019)
“National Geographic Has Always Depended on Exoticism” (Slate, March 14, 2018)
“A Hamilton Skeptic on Why the Show Isn’t As Revolutionary As It Seems” (Slate, April 5, 2016)

“The Long Cultural History of Jokes About Workplace Sexual Harassment” (Slate, December 19, 2017)
“How America’s Preference For Boys Over Women Has Fueled The Rise of Trump” (Slate, October 28, 2016)
“America Has Always Seen Ambitious Women As Unhealthy” (Slate, September 16, 2016)
“How ‘She Just Wants Attention’ Became America’s Hottest Sexist Insult” (Slate, April 4, 2016)
“The Warped World of Marriage Advice Before Feminism” (Aeon Magazine, September 8, 2014)

“On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s WWI Novel” (LitHub, October 23, 2019)
“No Man’s Land” (review of The Pioneers, by David McCullough) (Slate, May 10, 2019)
“‘Inexplicable, Terrible, and Capricious’” (review of Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery, by Jonathan Lamb) (Slate, December 8, 2016)
“Works of Prepper Fiction Reveal A Dark Truth About American Virtues” (Slate, October 6, 2016)
“Is History Written About Men, By Men?” (Slate, January 6, 2016)

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