Writing By Topic: Sports & Leisure
On the Vault
- “A ’70s Board Game Designed to Teach Players About Race, Housing, and Privilege” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 1, 2016)
- “An Uncle Tom’s Cabin Tie-In Card Game, From 1852” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 21, 2016)
- “1920s Instructional Diagrams Teach Ice Skating With Style” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 30, 2015)
- “These 18th- and 19th-Century ‘Dissected Maps’ Were the First Jigsaw Puzzles” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 4, 2015)
- “Graceful Minimalist Diagrams of Early-20th-Century Olympic High Dives”(Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 7, 2015)
- “Modernist 1930s Posters Calling Skiiers to the Mountains of Europe” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 10, 2015)
- “A Depression-Era Map Showing the Robust State of College Football in 1938” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 7, 2014)
- “Joyful 1930s Photos of Off-Duty Ballet Dancers At the Beach” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 5, 2014)
- “Delightfully Awkward Studio Action Shots of Players, Used on Early Baseball Cards” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 23, 2014)
- “Smash Mouth: The Life of a Football Lineman Before Face Masks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 9, 2014)
- “The Pro-Union Civil War Board Game That Was the Chutes and Ladders of 1862” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 6, 2014)
- “The CIA Used to Have a Commute-By-Canoe Club. One Member’s Memories.” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 19, 2014)
- “The Blue-and-Green Elegance of Turn-of-the-Century Tennis Illustrations” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 1, 2014)
- “Photos of Late 19th-Century Bicycle Clubs Riding Their Penny-Farthings Around the Bay Area”(Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 5, 2014)
- “1909 Advice for Lady Motorists, In Pictures” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 20, 2014)
- “Striking Photos of Early 20th-Century Baseball Players in Motion” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 22, 2014)
- “The First Wizard of Oz-Themed Board Game, Sold to 1920s Superfans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 1, 2014)
- “A 1940s Board Game for French Kids Taught Tactics for Successful Colonialism” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 28, 2014)
- “A Beautiful 1880s Geography Game for the ‘Rising Generation'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 24, 2014)
- “A British Teacher’s Archive of Confiscated Toys” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 27, 2013)
- “A Lovely 1896 Cyclists’ Map of California Offered Advice to Intrepid Riders” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 21, 2013)
- “Photo Album: When Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Went Car-Camping” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 30, 2013)
- “Theodore Roosevelt’s White House Bird List” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 1, 2013)
- “An 1817 Cheat Sheet for Nervous Dancers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 25, 2013)
- “Fitness Instruction From 1920s Chorus Girls” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 3, 2013)