Writing: The Vault’s Greatest Hits
2016
- “When Not To Get Married: Some Late-19th-Century Advice” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 15, 2016)
- “Adorable Midcentury Posters Teaching Kids How to Use The Library” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 29, 2016)
- “Adorable Depression-Era Posters Promoting Kindness to Animals” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 11, 2016)
- “100-Year-Old Frost Maps Show How Climate Change Has Shifted the Growing Season in the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 28, 2016)
- “Interactive Map Lets You Track How 19th- and Early-20th-Century American Newspapers Covered Any Topic” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 7, 2016)
- “A Colorful Late-19th-Century Map of Native American Languages” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 22, 2016)
- “The Hundreds of Life Stories Found in Coroner’s Reports from the 19th-Century South” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 19, 2016)
- “Exercise Advice for Flappers, in Gorgeous 1920s Prints” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 8, 2016)
- “How Documents Buried by Jewish Prisoners at Auschwitz Tell the Story of Genocide” (by Nicholas Chare and Dominic Williams)(Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 3, 2016)
- “How One Company Designed the Bookshelves That Made America’s Biggest Libraries Possible” (by Lydia Pyne) (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 1, 2016)
- “Drunkard, Merryboy, Younker. Some 17th-Century Names for Dogs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 25, 2016)
- “A Beautiful, Escapist Map of ‘Fairyland,’ Published in Britain at the End of World War I” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 15, 2016)
- “Witness the Controlled Chaos of Boston Traffic, As Filmed From a Streetcar in 1906” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 12, 2016)
2015
- “Poe’s Only Bestseller as a Living Author Was This Schoolbook About Seashells” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 14, 2015)
- “The CIA’s WWII Guide to Creating Organizational Dysfunction Perfectly Describes Your Toxic Workplace” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 20, 2015)
- “An Eloquent Baptist Protest Against Internment Camps During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 9, 2015)
- “The 37 Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 27, 2015)
- “How Cultured Are You, By 1950s Standards?” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 15, 2015)
- “Modernist Posters That Taught 1930s Kids How To Take Good Care Of Books” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 7, 2015)
- “Beautiful Early-20th-Century Watercolors of Apple Varieties You Don’t See Much Anymore” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 5, 2015)
- “A Bizarrely Complicated Late-19th-Century Flat-Earth Map” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 30, 2015)
- “The Heartbreaking Posters That Convinced Americans To Help Displayed Syrians During WWI” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 23, 2015)
- “An Artist’s Strangely Compelling 1960s Scrapbook of Comic Book Art” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 21, 2015)
- “A Detailed Brochure for an 1855 Slave Auction Shows How People Were Sold as Property” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 20, 2015)
- “A Lovely 19th-Century Illustrated Book of Japanese Falconry” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 14, 2015)
- “Five Panoramic Photographs of the Ruins of Hiroshima” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 6, 2015)
- “How Early-20th-Century Americans Taught Their Kids to be Thrifty” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 27, 2015)
- “Should You Be a Wife or a Career Woman? Take This 1950s Magazine Quiz” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 24, 2015)
- “Jack London’s Candid 1903 Advice to Writers Trying to Get Into Print” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 20, 2015)
- “The Hopeful, Heartbreaking Ads Placed by Formerly Enslaved People in Search of Lost Family” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 13, 2015)
- “George Washington’s 1761 Ad Seeking Four Fugitive Slaves” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 10, 2015)
- “Interactive Map Catalogs a History of Collective Violence Against Black Communities” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 6, 2015)
- “Gorgeous Nature-Themed Stained-Glass Mosaics, Sold to Victorian Builders” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 29, 2015)
- “Luminous Lantern Slides of Blackfeet Tipis on the Prairies of Montana in the Early 20th Century” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 15, 2015)
- “A Depression-Era Medicinal Plant Map of the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 13, 2015)
- “A Midcentury Map of American Wildflowers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 17, 2015)
- “Handprints of Hitler, Mussolini, and FDR, Analyzed by a Palm Reader in 1938” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 30, 2015)
- “Photos of Bohemian Partiers in New York’s Greenwich Village, 1910-1920” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 27, 2015)
- “How to Captivate an Audience Using Gestures, From a 19th-Century Oratorical Primer” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 25, 2015)
- “Sumptuous 1920s Art Nouveau Prints of Insects From Around the World” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 19, 2015)
- “A 19th-Century Japanese View of London, by an Artist Who’d Never Been There” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 10, 2015)
- “‘Put Someone In Charge of His Liquor’ and Other Foreign-Service Rules for Handling William Faulkner” (by Greg Barnhisel) (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 26, 2015)
- “A Forgotten History of Anti-Sikh Violence in the Early-20th-Century Pacific Northwest” (by Peter Manseau) (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 13, 2015)
- “An Anti-Suffrage Book from 1910, Mocking ‘Baby’ Activists” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 4, 2015)
- “Late 19th-Century Maps Show Measles Mortality Before Vaccines” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 3, 2015)
- “Pretty Tree Maps Showing the State of American Forests in 1884” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 9, 2015)
- “So, What Was In That Boston Time Capsule?” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 6, 2015)
2014
- “A Beautifully Illustrated Costume Catalog from 16th-Century France” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 31, 2014)
- “A Melancholy List of Edgar Allan Poe’s Debts, From His Bankruptcy Petition of 1842” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 3, 2014)
- “Whaling Ship Crew List Shows Melville Embarking on a Journey That Inspired Moby-Dick” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 27, 2014)
- “A Data-Packed Map of American Immigration in 1903” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 21, 2014)
- “1914 Authors’ Manifesto Defending Britain’s Involvement in WWI, Signed by HG Wells and Arthur Conan Doyle” (by Nick Milne) (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 20, 2014)
- “The Ottoman Empire’s First Map of the Newly Minted United States” (by Nick Danforth) (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 16, 2014)
- “How Bad Are Your Drinking Habits? An 18th-Century Temperance Thermometer Has the Verdict.” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 23, 2014)
- “An 1849 Guide to the Philadelphia Brothel Scene” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 8, 2014)
- “Gorgeous, Creepy Pages From a Late 19th-Century Art Nouveau Occult Calendar” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 29, 2014)
- “A 1931 Cartoon Map of ‘Chicago’s Gangland,’ Brimming With Wry, Macabre Details” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 25, 2014)
- “Interactive Time-Lapse Map Shows How the US took More Than 1.5 Billion Acres From Native Americans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 17, 2014)
- “The Neon Noir of Midcentury Vancouver” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 13, 2014)
- “The Recommendation Letter Ralph Waldo Emerson Wrote for a Job-Hunting Walt Whitman” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 9, 2014)
- “A Peek Inside the Mother-Daughter Collaboration That Brought Us the Little House Series” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 21, 2014)
- “A Brooklyn Woman’s Colorful Quilt, Illustrating Her Experience of the Civil War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 18, 2014)
- “The Exquisite Wistfulness of 19th-Century Vegetarian Personal Ads” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 10, 2014)
- “A 1940s Board Game for French Kids Taught Tactics for Successful Colonialism” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 28, 2014)
- “Historical Chart of the Causes, Milestones, and Battles of the Revolutionary War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 26, 2014)
- “Virginia Poe’s Sad Acrostic Valentine for Edgar Allan” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 13, 2014)
- “An Eccentric Millionaire’s 1875 Pork Map of the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 31, 2014)
- “How Londoners Died in One Plague-Ridden Week in 1665” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 22, 2014)
- “In Suggestions for Victorious Bus Boycotters, MLK’s Powerful Turn Toward Nonviolence” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 17, 2014)
- “A Pretty 1940 Map of American Diversity, Annotated by Langston Hughes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 13, 2014)
- “Some Everyday Words That Meant Really Different Things to Early American Colonists” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 10, 2014)
- “The ‘Known World’ from 2348 B.C. to A.D. 1828, in the Form of a Single GIF” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 2, 2014)
2013
- “Life Advice for Young Men That Went Viral in the 1850s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 4, 2013)
- “A British Teacher’s Archive of Confiscated Toys” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 27, 2013)
- “The ‘Wanted for Treason’ Flyer Distributed in Dallas Before JFK’s Visit” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 15, 2013)
- “Some Choice Bits of Slang From American Soldiers Serving in WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 11, 2013)
- “Some Excellent Mid-19th-Century Criminal Slang That’s Ripe For Revival” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 22, 2013)
- “A Lovely 1896 Cyclists’ Map of California Offered Advice to Intrepid Riders” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 21, 2013)
- “Julia Child’s List of Discarded Titles for Mastering the Art of French Cooking” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 3, 2013)
- “How Literate Are You by 1918 Standards? Take This Oddly Poetic Test” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 24, 2013)
- “Is it Possible to Fit the Civil War Into a Single Chart? Here’s One Beautiful Attempt” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 16, 2013)
- “An Unbelievably Intricate Drunken-Monkey Diorama, Carved by a Prisoner as a Gift to Henry Ford” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 9, 2013)
- “The Map That Lincoln Used to See the Reach of Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 4, 2013)
- “Seeds of Lovecraft’s ‘Mountains of Madness,” in His Terrifying, Tightly-Packed Notes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 28, 2013)
- “A Big, Beautiful Midcentury Map Celebrating American Folklore” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 21, 2013)
- “The Infamous Government Order Mandating Forced Haircuts for Native Americans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 20, 2013)
- “The Band of American Women Who Tried to Stop Andrew Jackson’s Native American Removal Policy” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 14, 2013)
- “The Entire History of the World–Really, All of It–Distilled Into a Single Gorgeous Chart” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 12, 2013)
- “Take the Impossible ‘Literacy’ Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 28, 2013)
- “A 17th-Century Sex Manual That’s Legitimately Raunchy” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 26, 2013)
- “Video: When Heston, Poitier, Brando, Baldwin, and Belafonte Sat Down to Talk Civil Rights” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 28, 2013)
- “What to Bring to a War: A Packing List for WWII Army Nurses” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 21, 2013)
- “‘God Sleepeth Not’: Helen Keller’s Blistering Letter to Book-Burning German Students” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 16, 2013)
- “Pages from the Official Star Trek Writers’ Guide, 1967” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 14, 2013)
- “Do You Have the Right Personality to Become a Secretary in 1959? Take This Quiz” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 8, 2013)
- “Theodore Roosevelt’s White House Bird List” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 1, 2013)
- “Vonnegut Volunteers for the JFK Campaign, 1960” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 29, 2013)
- “Listening to Records That No Longer Exist” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 4, 2013)
- “Langston Hughes’ Collection of Harlem Rent Party Advertisements” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 14, 2013)
- “The American Government’s Advice for Yeti Hunters, 1959” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 26, 2013)
- “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Wants Nothing To Do With Your Proust Questionnaire” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 21, 2013)
- “When Valentines Were Really, Really Mean” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 13, 2013)
- “Emily Dickinson Scrawled Her Poems on These Tiny Scraps of Paper” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 15, 2013)
- “The Sad History of the Kid-Sized Handcuffs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 11, 2013)
- “A Lynching Map of the United States, 1900-1931” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 8, 2013)
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