Writing by Topic: Practice of History
- “Some Things Are Worth Forgetting” (Q&A with David Rieff) (Slate, May 13, 2016)
- “Timeline Lets You Browse Hundreds of Historical Documents From The Vault Blog” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 26, 2016)
- “Less Guilt, More Action: What I learned from making Slate’s History of American Slavery series” (Slate Plus, October 14, 2015)
- “How to Write Erudite History For Teenagers” (an interview with M.T. Anderson) (Slate, October 9, 2015)
- “Vox’s Victorians” (on the idea of cosplaying your way into a previous era) (Slate, September 10, 2015)
- “What Happened Here?” (A quiz testing local historical knowledge) (Slate, August 20, 2015)
- “Against Generations” (Aeon Magazine, May 19, 2015)
- “Where to Read History on the Web” (Slate Plus, May 4, 2015)
- “The Pen” (A revisionist history of America’s oldest women’s prison—written by current prisoners). (Slate, March 22, 2015)
- “You Know Who Else Made Jokes about Hitler?” (Q&A with historian Gavriel Rosenfeld) (Boston Globe Ideas section, February 15, 2015)
- “A Gift Guide for Young Historians” (Slate, December 17, 2014)
- “Historians! Go Big Or Go Home” (Boston Globe Ideas section, December 12, 2014)
- “What Did Gettysburg Smell Like? A Sensory History of the Civil War” (Slate, November 24, 2014)
- “History, or Just Horror?” (Slate, November 6, 2014)
- “Object Lessons: 100 Examples of the Stuff History Was Made On” (Times Higher Education, October 23, 2014)
- “On Letters of Note: The Internet’s Idea of History” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2014)
- “Interviews with Young Historians” (Appendix Journal, February 18, 2014)
- “Snapshots of History: Wildly Popular Accounts Like @HistoryInPics Are Bad For History, Bad For Twitter, and Bad For You” (Slate, February 5, 2014)
- “The Fascinating Things You Learn From Reading Very Old Polls” (Slate‘s Browbeat blog, January 17, 2014)
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