Writing: The Vault’s Greatest Hits

“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)

“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)

“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)

“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)

“A Get-Well Pictogram From Hemingway’s WWI Drinking Buddies” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 4, 2012)
“First Lady Grace Coolidge Loved Her Raccoon, Rebecca” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 26, 2012)
“Kurt Vonnegut’s 1967 Advice to a New Teacher at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 20, 2012)

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