Writing: Everything, By Date
2018
- “Avoiding The Scourge of a Million Crappy Plastic Toys” (Slate, January 16, 2018)
- “Four Ways We’ve Distorted The History of the Civil Rights Movement” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 15, 2018)
2017
- “The Handsy Boss and the Sexy Secretary” (Slate, December 19, 2017)
- “Preserving Today’s Internet” (Slate‘s Future Tense blog, December 11, 2017)
- Peggy Noonan’s Willful Blindness (Slate, December 1, 2017)
- “Can I Be A Screen-Free Parent Without Being Horrible About It?” (Slate, November 29, 2017)
- “Margaret Mead’s Left-Field Idea For Solving The Sexual Harassment Problem” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 22, 2017)
- “We’ve Got The ’70s-Style Rage. Now We Need the ’70s-Style Feminist Social Analysis” (Slate, November 20, 2017)
- “Angry, Scared, Armed People” (Slate, November 3, 2017)
- “How Predators Take Advantage of Photo Ops to Assault Women” (Slate, October 27, 2017)
- “Time in a Bottle” (Slate, September 8, 2017)
- “The Nazis were Obsessed With Magic” (Slate, August 24, 2017)
- “Dismantled but Not Destroyed” (Slate, August 18, 2017)
- “Spectacle of Hate” (Slate, August 17, 2017)
- ““How Depression-Era Women Made Dresses Out Of Chicken Feed” ((Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 21, 2017)
- “What Good Is Fear?” (Slate, July 20, 2017)
- “A New Study Looks at What Becoming a Mother Does to Your Self-Esteem” (Slate, July 6, 2017)
- “A Deep Digital Archive of Social Transformation in 1970s Berkeley” (Slate, July 5, 2017)
- “What Is The Far Right’s Endgame? A Society That Suppresses The Majority” (Slate, June 22, 2017)
- “What Really Happens After Societal Collapse” (Slate, June 21, 2017)
- “Your Child Care Conundrum Is An Anti-Communist Plot” (Slate, June 14, 2017)
- “Dramatic Courtroom Drawings From Decades of American Trials” ((Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 9, 2017)
- “Bad News: We’re Sexist” (Slate‘s XX Factor, June 7, 2017)
- “Dark Satirical Maps from a Depression-Era Anti-Fascist Magazine” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 17, 2017)
- “Admissions Books for an Early-19th-Century Prison Hold a Wealth of Stories” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 2, 2017)
- “The Creepy Bill O’Reilly Kids’ Book That Teaches Children to Beg for Help” (Slate‘s XX Factor, April 21, 2017)
- “Introducing Fascism” (Slate, January 20, 2017)
- “An Odd and Obsolete 19th-Century Nickname Map of the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 18, 2017)
- “The Weird Science That Inspired Mary Shelley” (with Daniel Hubbard) (Slate‘s Future Tense, January 13, 2017)
- “Five More Compelling Digital History Projects We Loved in 2016” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 5, 2017)
2016
- “Five Fascinating Digital History Projects We Loved in 2016”(Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 30, 2016)
- “Before Having My First Child I Bought and Stocked a Chest Freezer. Here’s What’s Inside” (Slate’s Double X blog, December 28, 2016)
- “Beautiful Pages of a Late Medieval Monk’s Sketchbook” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 16, 2016)
- “The Best Historical Coffeetable Books of 2016” (Slate Picks, December 16, 2016)
- “What Things Cost in an American Country Store in 1836” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 9, 2016)
- “‘Inexplicable, Terrible, and Capricious'” (review of Jonathan Lamb’s cultural history of scurvy) (Slate Book Review, December 8, 2016)
- “Feeling Overwhelmed by Holiday Chores? Try Spreading Them Out Into an Exciting, Monthlong Calendar” (Slate‘s Open Source Holiday blog, December 7, 2016)
- “When to Rename a Building, and Why” (Slate, December 5, 2016)
- “Is Racism a Disease?” (Slate, November 17, 2016)
- “There Is No Solace in the Past” (Slate, November 9, 2016)
- “Some Choice Political Memorabilia, Shared via #ElectionCollection” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 8, 2016)
- “How Did They Count All Those Ballots Before Voting Machines?” (Slate, November 8, 2016)
- “When Did Losing Candidates Start Calling the Winner to Concede?” (Slate, November 8, 2016)
- “Take the Long View of a Toxic Election with #VisitASuffragist” (Slate‘s Double X blog, November 7, 2016)
- “Picky Bosses’ Pet Peeves About Secretaries, in a 1945 List” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 2, 2016)
- “No Girls Allowed” (a theory of Trump and boyishness) (Slate, October 28, 2016)
- “A Harsh, But Efficient, Form Rejection Letter For Silent Film Screenwriters” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 27, 2016)
- “Washington’s 1776 Warning to the City of New York: ‘Get Out While You Can'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 21, 2016)
- “Is It Normal To Be Obsessed With Organizing Your Fridge?” (Slate‘s Normal blog, October 20, 2016)
- “How The Birth of a Nation Uses Fact and Fiction” (Slate‘s Browbeat blog, October 14, 2016)
- “Bits and Pieces of Old New York, in a New Digital Collection” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 6, 2016)
- “Ready for the End” (essay on prepper fiction) (Slate Book Review, October 6, 2016)
- “Curiosity in the Face of Immensity” (review of David Macaulay’s The Way Things Work Now) (Slate Book Review, October 4, 2016)
- “Lyrical Paintings of Life Inside a WWII Internment Camp” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 29, 2016)
- “Deepwater Horizon” (movie review) (Slate, September 28, 2016)
- “America Has Always Seen Ambitious Women As Unhealthy” (Slate, September 16, 2016)
- “Stark, Spare, Beautiful Midcentury British Safety Posters” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 16, 2016)
- “Salvaged Photos Capture the Rugged Life of Pennsylvania’s Late-19th-Century Lumber Camps” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 7, 2016)
- “How Do Descendants of Slaves Find Their Ancestors?” (Slate, September 2, 2016)
- “When Malcolm X Met Fidel Castro” (Slate, August 30, 2016)
- “A Nazi’s Documentary Photographs of the Forced Removal of Polish Jews, 1940” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 26, 2016)
- “The Epidemic Archives of the Future Will Be Born Digital” (Slate‘s Future Tense blog, August 23, 2016)
- “Sorry, Twitter: Male Self-Citation in Academia Isn’t Really ‘Mansplaining'” (Slate‘s Double X blog, August 2, 2016)
- “New Histories of the Texas Tower Shootings, 50 Years Later” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 29, 2016)
- “What Bill O’Reilly Doesn’t Understand About Slavery” (Slate, July 28, 2016)
- “19th-Century For-Profit Colleges Spawned Trump University” (Slate, July 27, 2016)
- “Is 2016 The Worst Year In History?” (Slate, July 22, 2016)
- “A 19th-Century Board Game Made to Teach Young Germans About Colonialism” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 22, 2016)
- “Why It Makes No Sense To Judge Groups of People By Their Histories of Invention” (Slate‘s Future Tense blog, July 20, 2016)
- “When Not To Get Married: Some Late-19th-Century Advice” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 15, 2016)
- “At The Start of the Civil War, Few Union Army Surgeons Had Ever Treated a Gunshot Wound” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 6, 2016)
- “Is the Greatest Collection of Slave Narratives Tainted By Racism?” (Slate, July 6, 2016)
- “Victorians’ Fears About The Ills of Modern Technology Sounded A Lot Like Ours” (Slate‘s Future Tense blog, July 1, 2016)
- “Adorable Midcentury Posters Teaching Kids How to Use The Library” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 29, 2016)
- “Why Free State of Jones Isn’t Just Another White Savior Movie” (Slate, June 23, 2016)
- “Where is the Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Gun Control?” (Slate, June 20, 2016)
- “What Gun Control Advocates Can Learn From Abolitionists” (Q&A with Manisha Sinha) (Slate, June 14, 2016)
- “Browse Nearly 1,000 Photo Postcards of Late-19th-Century Stage Productions of Shakespeare” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 8, 2016)
- “How Two Artists Turn Old Encyclopedias Into Beautiful, Melancholy Art” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 3, 2016)
- “Some Lost Superstitions of the Early-20th-Century United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 1, 2016)
- “The Heartfelt Letters That Reveal How The Original Roots Haunted America” (Slate‘s Browbeat blog, June 1, 2016)
- “Pretty Portraits of the Tiny, Lumpy, Sweet Strawberries of the Early 20th Century” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 25, 2016)
- “A 1942 List of Hitler’s Lies” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 18, 2016)
- “Some Things Are Worth Forgetting” (Q&A with David Rieff) (Slate, May 13, 2016)
- “Adorable Depression-Era Posters Promoting Kindness to Animals” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 11, 2016)
- “America’s Lost History of Border Violence” (Slate, May 5, 2016)
- “Finding the Poetry in Walt Whitman’s Newly Rediscovered Health Advice” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 2, 2016)
- “Andrew Jackson’s Adopted Indian Son”(Slate, April 29, 2016)
- “Toward a New Theory of the Bad Dad and Husband” (Slate, April 28, 2016)
- “A WWI-Era Memo Asking French Officers to Practice Jim Crow With Black American Troops” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 27, 2016)
- “A Trove of Newly-Digitized Trademarks Offers A Capsule History of Late-19th-Century California” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 22, 2016)
- “An Excellent Drunk History Remembers One of Harriet Tubman’s Most Amazing Exploits” (Slate’s Brow Beat blog, April 20, 2016)
- “Some Surviving Receipts for Taxes Paid in 18th-Century England and Scotland” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 18, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: Ancient Greek Curse Tablet” (Mental Floss online, April 15, 2016)
- “An Affectionate 1932 Illustrated Map of Harlem Nightlife” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 15, 2016)
- “Some Delightfully Scatological and Cruel Nursery Rhymes, From the Oldest Surviving Book of Them” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 11, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: A Needlepoint Map Sampler” (Mental Floss online, April 8, 2016)
- “Poignant Petitions From 19th-Century Mothers Hoping to Surrender Illegitimate Children” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 6, 2016)
- “A Hamilton Skeptic on Why the Show Isn’t As Revolutionary As It Seems” (Slate, April 5, 2016)
- “How ‘She Just Wants Attention’ Became America’s Hottest Sexist Insult” (Slate, April 4, 2016)
- “A 19th-Century 3-D Bird’s-Eye Map of Mt. Fuji, With All the Bells and Whistles” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 5, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: Mermaid Helmet” (Mental Floss online, April 1, 2016)
- “A ’70s Board Game Designed to Teach Players About Race, Housing, and Privilege” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 1, 2016)
- “The Art of the New Deal” (Slate, March 31, 2016)
- “Can You Tell When This Vintage Home Movie Was Filmed?” (Slate, March 30, 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)
- “Show & Tell: Rococo Microscope” (Mental Floss online, March 25, 2016)
- “A Vivid 1937 Map Imagining How Japan Might Attack the West Coast of the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 23, 2016)
- “An Uncle Tom’s Cabin Tie-In Card Game, From 1852” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 21, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: Ford Model T Ignition Key” (Mental Floss online, March 18, 2016)
- “Remembering Hundreds of Years of Deadly Gun-Related Accidents in the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 18, 2016)
- “A Plea on Behalf of Immigrants, Written (Most Likely) in Shakespeare’s Hand, Now Digitized” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 16, 2016)
- “Forget ‘Hamilton’: On Tumblr, Founding Fathers Fandom Is Running Wild With Sex and Scholarship” (New York Magazine‘s Following blog, March 15, 2016)
- “Pages from Theodore Roosevelt’s Field Notebooks Record Animals Seen—And Killed” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 14, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: Wanted Posters from 19th Century Nova Scotia” (Mental Floss online, March 11, 2016)
- “Late-19th-Century Business Maps of San Francisco’s Chinatown, Used to Determine Immigration Status” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 11, 2016)
- “Illustrated Propaganda for Elementary-School Students in Mussolini’s Italy” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 9, 2016)
- “Roller Skating Socials and a Black Rosie the Riveter” (on two websites exploring the archive of the black press) (Slate, March 8, 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)
- “The Most Accurate Part of The Witch? It Nails the Desperate, Crazed Mindset of Early American Settlers” (Slate‘s Browbeat blog, February 29, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: 1920s Cigarette Cards Depicting Flappers Dressed as Butterflies” (Mental Floss online, February 26, 2016)
- “Timeline Lets You Browse Hundreds of Historical Documents From The Vault Blog” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 26, 2016)
- “Wistful Memories of the Confederacy, 50 Years After the Civil War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 24, 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)
- “Show & Tell: A 19th-Century Chatelaine” (Mental Floss online, February 19, 2016)
- “A Treasure Trove of Awkward Early-20th-Century Infographics” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 17, 2016)
- “George Washington, Lifelong Mapmaker” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 15, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: A Map of Matrimony” (Mental Floss online, February 12, 2016)
- “A 19th-Century Relief Map That Let Students Explore the Roman Empire by Touch” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 10, 2016)
- “Exercise Advice for Flappers, in Gorgeous 1920s Prints” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 8, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: Visconti Tarot Cards” (Mental Floss online, February 5, 2016)
- “A Cheerier Vision of the Depression Years, in Hyperbright Postcards of Recreation Spots” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 2, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: Inuit Snow Goggles” (Mental Floss online, January 29, 2016)
- “How an 1830s Children’s Magazine Taught Hard Truths About Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 27, 2016)
- “Drunkard, Merryboy, Younker. Some 17th-Century Names for Dogs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 25, 2016)
- “Listen to Studs Terkel Interview Gloria Steinem on the 10th Anniversary of Ms. Magazine” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 22, 2016)
- “Amelia Earhart’s Cautiously Optimistic 1933 Advice to a Female Pilot” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 20, 2016)
- “America’s Other Original Sin” (on Native Americans and slavery) (Slate, January 18, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: Powder Horn Map” (Mental Floss online, January 15, 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)
- “Gently Posed Photos of Everyday Life in Late-19th-Century Rural Japan” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 14, 2016)
- “Witness the Controlled Chaos of Boston Traffic, As Filmed From a Streetcar in 1906” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 12, 2016)
- “Show & Tell: An Antique Love Token from a Broken Heart” (Mental Floss online, January 8, 2016)
- “Is History Written By Men, About Men?” (with Andrew Kahn) (Slate, January 6, 2016)
- “18th-Century Souvenirs From Epic Festivals Held on the Frozen River Thames” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 6, 2016)
- “Stunning Modernist Covers of 1930s Fortune Magazine Will Give You A Bad Case of Print Nostalgia” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 4, 2016)
- “Is This a Beat or What?” (Years in Review 2015, Medium, January 4, 2016)
2015
- “The History of American Childhood” (Backlist, December 30, 2015)
- “1920s Instructional Diagrams Teach Ice Skating With Style” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 30, 2015)
- “Who Was Hugh Glass?” (Slate, December 23, 2015)
- “Five More Digital History Projects We Loved in 2015” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 21, 2015)
- “Show & Tell: 17th-Century Falcon’s Hood” (Mental Floss online, December 18, 2015)
- “Five Digital History Projects That Dazzled Us in 2015” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 18, 2015)
- “‘The Problem of Living in New York’: A Middle-Class Complaint From 1882” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 16, 2015)
- “How 1940s Prisoners of War Escaped Through Their Dreams” (Atlas Obscura, December 16, 2015)
- “Poe’s Only Bestseller as a Living Author Was This Schoolbook About Seashells” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 14, 2015)
- “The ‘Childhood’s End ‘ Miniseries is a Waste of One of Sci-Fi’s Greatest Tropes” (Slate‘s Future Tense blog, December 14, 2015)
- “The Ten Best Podcast Episodes of 2015” (Slate, December 14, 2015)
- “A New History of Prohibition” (Slate, December 11, 2015)
- “Show & Tell: The Blaschka Glass Flowers” (Mental Floss online, December 11, 2015)
- “The Best Coffee-Table Books of 2015 For History Lovers” (Slate, December 10, 2015)
- “A 19th-Century Memory Palace Containing All of Ancient History” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 11, 2015)
- “How Dreamcatchers Went From Sacred Tradition to the Malls of America” (Atlas Obscura, December 9, 2015)
- “What If Historians Started Taking the ‘What If’ Seriously?” (Aeon Magazine , December 8, 2015)
- “Watch American Yearbook Photos Evolve Over 108 Years” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 7, 2015)
- “Show & Tell: The Lamp That Saved Coal Miners’ Lives” (Mental Floss online, December 4, 2015)
- “Spooky, Beautiful 1930s Photos of London Streets at Night” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 4, 2015)
- “What Did Abraham Lincoln Dream About? 8 Stories of Famous Dreams” (Atlas Obscura, December 3, 2015)
- “A Map of Intellectual Talent in the Early-20th-Century United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 30, 2015)
- “An Adorable Apple Pie ABC for Hungry 19th-Century Children” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 25, 2015)
- “How Americans Changed the Meaning of ‘Dream'” (Atlas Obscura, November 23, 2015)
- “A D.C. Watercolorist’s Beautiful Record of the Changing City in the ‘60s and ‘70s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 23, 2015)
- “Show & Tell: Artifacts from the Atari Tomb” (Mental Floss online, November 20, 2015)
- “The CIA’s WWII Guide to Creating Organizational Dysfunction Perfectly Describes Your Toxic Workplace” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 20, 2015)
- “Photos of Belgium’s Ravaged Landscapes, in the Immediate Aftermath of World War I” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 28, 2015)
- “6 Masterpieces Made While Artists Slept” (Atlas Obscura, November 17, 2015)
- “Maps Tracking Levels of Poverty in Victorian London, Block by Block” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 12, 2015)
- “An Eloquent Baptist Protest Against Internment Camps During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 9, 2015)
- “A Depression-Era Zoo Housed Wolves and Three Species of Bears Together. It Didn’t End Well” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 6, 2015)
- “Learning The History of My Town Made Me Feel More At Home Here” (Slate, November 5, 2015)
- “These 18th- and 19th-Century ‘Dissected Maps’ Were the First Jigsaw Puzzles” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 4, 2015)
- “A Striking Artifact of Casual Misogyny from the Early 20th Century” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 2, 2015)
- “Lyrical Engravings of Cyclists’ Adventures During the Sport’s Earliest Days” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 28, 2015)
- “The 37 Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 27, 2015)
- “Broody, Dramatic 20th-Century Posters Promoting Productions of ‘Hamlet'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 23, 2015)
- “Early Aviation in Italy, As Seen Through the Enraptured Lens of a Futurist Pilot” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 21, 2015)
- “An Early-20th-Century British Map of the Global Drug Trade” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 19, 2015)
- “How Cultured Are You, By 1950s Standards?” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 15, 2015)
- “Less Guilt, More Action: What I learned from making Slate’s History of American Slavery series” (Slate Plus, October 14, 2015)
- “A Swiss Artist’s Sensitive Early-19th-Century Portraits of Native American Life” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 12, 2015)
- “A Sailor’s Annotated Map of the Pacific Illustrates A Tour Of Duty During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 9, 2015)
- “How to Write Erudite History For Teenagers” (an interview with M.T. Anderson) (Slate, October 9, 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)
- “Nazi Photos Documenting Heaps of Everyday Objects Looted From Jewish Households” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 2, 2015)
- “A Bizarrely Complicated Late-19th-Century Flat-Earth Map” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 30, 2015)
- “Slavery Myths, Debunked” (with Jamelle Bouie) (Slate, September 29, 2015)
- “Behold the Confusing Diversity of American Banknotes During the Antebellum Era” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 28, 2015)
- “Gorgeous Plates from an Early-20th-Century German Encyclopedia of Minerals” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 25, 2015)
- “The Heartbreaking Posters That Convinced Americans To Help Displayed Syrians During WWI” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 23, 2015)
- “Our Panics, Our Selves” (a review of Richard Beck’s book We Believe the Children) (The Boston Review online, September 23, 2015)
- “Most Records of Underground Railroad Activity Were Destroyed. Not This One” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 21, 2015)
- “Beautiful Watercolors of Helpful Plants, from a 16th-Century Book of Herbal Medicine” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 18, 2015)
- “Fantastically Hypothetical Buildings on Paper, Drawn by Two Soviet Architects” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 16, 2015)
- “School Certificates of Merit for Good Little 19th-Century Boys and Girls” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 14, 2015)
- “Browse Hundreds of Documents Submitted by Enslaved People Petitioning for Freedom” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 11, 2015)
- “An Unusually Beautiful 19th-Century Illustrated Photo Album” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 4, 2015)
- “Sketches of Life in a Union POW Camp, by a Confederate Prisoner” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 31, 2015)
- “Dreamy Early-20th-Century Photochroms of Scenery in the Swiss Alps” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 28, 2015)
- “An 1863 Recruitment Letter Urging the Formation of Anti-Lincoln Sleeper Cells” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 27, 2015)
- “A Comprehensive 1943 Infographic of American Booms and Busts” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 24, 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)
- “What Happened Here?” (A quiz testing local historical knowledge) (Slate, August 20, 2015)
- “Are ‘Free Range Kids’ Really a Good Idea? Insights from the Cleveland Play Census” (Belt Magazine, August 18, 2015)
- “The Roads Around Late-18th-Century London, Mapped in Close-Up Detail” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 17, 2015)
- “A Lovely 19th-Century Illustrated Book of Japanese Falconry” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 14, 2015)
- “Graceful Minimalist Diagrams of Early-20th-Century Olympic High Dives”(Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 7, 2015)
- “Are We in the Midst of a New Civil Rights Era?” (Slate, August 6, 2015)
- “Five Panoramic Photographs of the Ruins of Hiroshima” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 6, 2015)
- “Drawings of Apache Life, Made by a Prisoner of War in the Late 19th Century” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 4, 2015)
- “A Delightful 1912 Children’s Book About a Wayward Rocket” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 31, 2015)
- “Americans Recovering from the Civil War Loved These Bloodless, Beautiful Battle Scenes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 30, 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)
- “A Beautiful 1930s Sportsman’s Map of American Saltwater Fish” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 22, 2015)
- “Jack London’s Candid 1903 Advice to Writers Trying to Get Into Print” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 20, 2015)
- “A Book of Biting Caricatures of the Turn-of-the-Century 1%” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 17, 2015)
- “Gorgeous Nouveau Metalwork Designs in a Late-19th-Century Catalog” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 15, 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)
- “The BBC”s Hilarious 1948 Style Guidelines ‘On Matters of Taste'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 6, 2015)
- “Driving Off Into the Sunset” (review of Oliver Wang’s Legions of Boom and the Fast and Furious franchise) (Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 2015)
- “The Atrocity Propaganda Ben Franklin Circulated to Sway Public Opinion in America’s Favor” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 1, 2015)
- “Gorgeous Nature-Themed Stained-Glass Mosaics, Sold to Victorian Builders” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 29, 2015)
- “Boyhood” (Slate, May 28, 2015)
- “Advice For Late–19th-Century Rubes About To Visit Chicago” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 27, 2015)
- “’Caveat Emptor!’: The First Anti-Slavery Pamphlet Published in New England” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 22, 2015)
- “A 16th-Century GIF Tour of the Inside of the Brain” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 20, 2015)
- “Against Generations” (Aeon Magazine, May 19, 2015)
- “The Funny Found Poetry of Early-20th-Century Typeface Demos” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 18, 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)
- “‘U Tr?’: A Glossary of Abbreviations Used by Early-20th-Century Telegraph Operators” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 11, 2015)
- “An Early-19th-Century Scientist’s Close-Up Portraits of Pollen” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 8, 2015)
- “How Proponents of Forced Sterilization Convinced Everyday Californians to Support Their Cause” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 6, 2015)
- “Audubon’s Animals of 19th-Century North America, Newly Available for Hi-Res Download” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 4, 2015)
- “Where to Read History on the Web” (Slate Plus, May 4, 2015)
- “Bright 1970 Cuban Propaganda Posters Urging Solidarity With Vietnam” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 1, 2015)
- “Rules of Business Ethics for Early-19th-Century Christian Merchants” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 29, 2015)
- “A Gorgeous Rainbow 19th-Century Geological Map of Europe” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 27, 2015)
- “The Books Virginia Colonists Were Buying in the Decade Before the Revolution” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 24, 2015)
- “A 1905 Rendition of the 23rd Psalm, Gorgeously Illustrated in Proto-Deco Style” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 22, 2015)
- “Lists of Types of Mania and Melancholy, Compiled for Early–19th-Century Doctors” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 20, 2015)
- “A Midcentury Map of American Wildflowers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 17, 2015)
- “A Book of Eyewitness Testimony Taken Right After the Lincoln Assassination” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 15, 2015)
- “Thousands of Women Ran for Office Before They Could Vote” (Slate, April 14, 2015)
- “The Best Places Online to Browse Historical Documents From the Lincoln Assassination” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 13, 2015)
- “The Complex Series of Symbols Early Motorists Used for Wayfinding” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 10, 2015)
- “What Was On a 1920s Membership Application for the KKK?” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 8, 2015)
- “The Original Draft of Grant’s Surrender Terms at Appomattox” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 6, 2015)
- “Punched Timecards of the Insanely Workaholic Thomas A. Edison” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 3, 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)
- “A 1935 Historical Map of Shanghai, Designed by an Enthusiastic Resident Expat” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 23, 2015)
- “The Pen” (A revisionist history of America’s oldest women’s prison—written by current prisoners). (Slate, March 22, 2015)
- “Bloody Accounts of Steamboat Disasters, Sold to Tourists on the 19th-Century Mississippi” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 20, 2015)
- “Sumptuous 1920s Art Nouveau Prints of Insects From Around the World” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 19, 2015)
- “A Telephone Map of the United States Shows Where You Could Call Using Ma Bell in 1910” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 16, 2015)
- “The Two-Page Plot Outline a Writer of the Hardy Boys Series Used to Crank Out a Book” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 13, 2015)
- “How a Jewish Rescuer Smuggled Hundreds of Jews Out of Poland During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 11, 2015)
- “A 19th-Century Japanese View of London, by an Artist Who’d Never Been There” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 10, 2015)
- “Mark Twain’s Memory Builder Game Will (Probably Not) Help You Learn Historical Dates” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 5, 2015)
- “Red Summer” (Slate, March 4, 2015)
- “A Tragic Catalog of 100 Mostly Miserable 19th-Century Marriages” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 3, 2015)
- “A Tourist Map of Occupied Paris, Issued to German Soldiers During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 27, 2015)
- “A 1964 Document Tallying Penalties for Sodomy and Fornication Across the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 25, 2015)
- “Wild, Weird, and Funny Austin Music Posters of the 1960s and 1970s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 20, 2015)
- “Delicately Preserved Slices of Wood Illustrating a Late-19th-Century Book of American Forests” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 18, 2015)
- “You Know Who Else Made Jokes about Hitler?” (Boston Globe Ideas section, February 15, 2015)
- “Form-Letter Valentines for 19th-Century Lovers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 13, 2015)
- “An 1864 Letter to American Women, Rallying Support for a Huge Anti-Slavery Petition Drive” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 11, 2015)
- “Modernist 1930s Posters Calling Skiiers to the Mountains of Europe” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 10, 2015)
- “Ode to Green Slime” (The Atlantic.com, February 6, 2015)
- “Biographical Cartoons of Notable Black Americans, Drawn to Promote Unity During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 5, 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)
- “The Slips of Paper That Called 19th-Century Militias to Muster” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 2, 2015)
- “The Papers Late-19th-Century Chinese Immigrants Had to Carry To Prove Their Legal Status” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 30, 2015)
- “Jefferson’s Outline of the Differences Between Northerners and Southerners” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 28, 2015)
- “A Victorian Argument That Snow is Holy, Illustrated by a Beautiful Catalog of Flakes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 27, 2015)
- “The Info-Dense Maps Civilians Used to Follow WWII From the Home Front” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 23, 2015)
- “Beguiling 19th-Century Space Art, Made by a Self-Taught Astronomical Observer” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 21, 2015)
- “Flyers for the Campaigns Martin Luther King Was Working on When He Was Assassinated” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 21, 2015)
- “Pitching a Potential Donor, Shackleton Sketched This Expedition Map” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 14, 2015)
- “The Lucky Charms Soldiers Carried Into WWI” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 13, 2015)
- “Pretty Tree Maps Showing the State of American Forests in 1884” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 9, 2015)
- “The Beautiful Geometry of 18th-Century Forts, Built by Britain in the American Colonies” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 7, 2015)
- “So, What Was In That Boston Time Capsule?” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 6, 2015)
- “A List of Diseases and Afflictions Suffered By Young Factory Workers in Chicago, 1895” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 6, 2015)
- “How Photographers Tried to Capture the Terror of Night Zeppelin Raids During WWI” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 5, 2015)
2014
- “A Beautifully Illustrated Costume Catalog from 16th-Century France” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 31, 2014)
- “Five More Digital Archives and Historical Exhibits We Loved in 2014”(Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 30, 2014)
- “Five of 2014’s Most Compelling Digital History Exhibits and Archives” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 29, 2014)
- “A Senator’s Open Christmas Letter to the Racially Divided City of Boston, 1974” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 24, 2014)
- “Hopeful Hand-Embroidered Christmas Cards, Sent Home from the Front During WWI” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 23, 2014)
- “Blind Kids’ Experiences at the Early-20th-Century Museum of Natural History, in Photos” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 22, 2014)
- “A Vision of the Utter Chaos That Was Early-19th-Century Firefighting” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 19, 2014)
- “The Most Beautiful and Intelligent Historical Coffee-Table Books of 2014” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 19, 2014)
- “A Detailed, Majestic Diagram of Two British Ships of War, From an 18th-Century Encyclopedia” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 18, 2014)
- “A Gift Guide for Young Historians” (Slate, December 17, 2014)
- “Late-1940s Chicago CSI, In Photos” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 15, 2014)
- “The 25 Best Podcast Episodes Ever” (with David Haglund) (Slate, December 14, 2014)
- “Historians! Go Big Or Go Home” (Boston Globe Ideas section, December 12, 2014)
- “An Inventory of Robert E. Lee’s Personal Property, Left in His Mansion and Seized by the Government” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 11, 2014)
- “An Early Arctic Explorer’s Dramatic Drawings of the Frozen North” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 9, 2014)
- “FDR’s First Draft of his ‘Day of Infamy’ Speech, With His Notes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 8, 2014)
- “Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Outtakes” (Virginia Quarterly Review online, December 5, 2014)
- “Nifty Methods for Smuggling Contraband, From a Manual for WWII-Era British Spies” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 5, 2014)
- “Map Shows Where the Juvenile Delinquents Lived in Depression-Era DC” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 3, 2014)
- “How to Employ Women in Government Jobs: Postwar Advice Drawn from the American Experience” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 1, 2014)
- “A 17th-Century Argument for the Many Virtues of Coffee, Chocolate, and Tea” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 28, 2014)
- “A Beautiful Depression-Era Route Map Makes Transcontinental Bus Travel Look Glamorous” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 26, 2014)
- “How Railroads Advertised for Homesteaders to Settle in Indian Territory” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 25, 2014)
- “What Did Gettysburg Smell Like? A Sensory History of the Civil War” (Slate, November 24, 2014)
- “Peep Inside a Newspaper’s Bustling Headquarters, Circa 1922” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 21, 2014)
- “Beautiful, Terrible Watercolors of a 19th-Century Whale Hunt, Found in a Ship’s Logbook” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 19, 2014)
- “Delicately Hand-Tinted Postcards Show How Early 20th-Century Tourists Viewed Japan” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 21, 2014)
- “A WWII Ration Book Issued to FDR” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 18, 2014)
- “Gently Sexy Boudoir Stereographs For Use in Victorian Parlors” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 14, 2014)
- “A Quaker Printer’s Early 19th-Century Attempt To Convince New Yorkers of the Horrors of Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 13, 2014)
- “Delightful 17th-Century Traveling Library Packs 40 Volumes Into One” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 11, 2014)
- “A Depression-Era Map Showing the Robust State of College Football in 1938” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 7, 2014)
- “History, or Just Horror?” (Slate, November 6, 2014)
- “Joyful 1930s Photos of Off-Duty Ballet Dancers At the Beach” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 5, 2014)
- “A Melancholy List of Edgar Allan Poe’s Debts, From His Bankruptcy Petition of 1842” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 3, 2014)
- “Commemorative Illustrations Showing Off the Gorgeous Parades of Late-Medieval Germany” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 31, 2014)
- “‘Love Your Government, Or Else.’ A Civil War-Era Infographic with a Mission” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 30, 2014)
- “The Black Humor of WWI Soldiers, in a Parody Form Letter to Wives” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 29, 2014)
- “Etiquette Lessons for the Annoying Moviegoers of Early Cinema” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 28, 2014)
- “Whaling Ship Crew List Shows Melville Embarking on a Journey That Inspired Moby-Dick” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 27, 2014)
- “Object Lessons: 100 Examples of the Stuff History Was Made On” (Times Higher Education, October 23, 2014)
- “Delightfully Awkward Studio Action Shots of Players, Used on Early Baseball Cards” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 23, 2014)
- “Casting the Role of Scarlett O’Hara Was Really, Really Frustrating” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 22, 2014)
- “A Data-Packed Map of American Immigration in 1903” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 21, 2014)
- “The Star Charts That Apollo 11 Astronauts Used to Land on the Moon” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 17, 2014)
- “This Map Shows Just How Divided the U.S. Was on Civil Rights in 1949” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 14, 2014)
- “The Wild Zebra-Striped Ships That Confounded German Submarines During WWI”(Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 13, 2014)
- “On Letters of Note: The Internet’s Idea of History” (Virginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2014)
- “The Lantern Slides That Advertised Coming Attractions in the Silent Film Era” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 10, 2014)
- “Smash Mouth: The Life of a Football Lineman Before Face Masks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 9, 2014)
- “The Pointers Eleanor Roosevelt Gave to JFK After His First Televised Debate With Nixon” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 7, 2014)
- “The Pro-Union Civil War Board Game That Was the Chutes and Ladders of 1862” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 6, 2014)
- “Mapping 1890 Manhattan’s Crazy-Quilt of Immigrant Neighborhoods” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 2, 2014)
- “James Meredith, Determined to Enroll at Ole Miss, Declares His Purpose in a 1961 Letter” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 1, 2014)
- “Go Ahead, Try to Decode This 19th-Century Rebus Atlas of New England” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 29, 2014)
- “Super-Fancy Pop-Up Greeting Cards, Sent for Rosh Hashanah in Early 20th-Century New York” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 24, 2014)
- “How Bad Are Your Drinking Habits? An 18th-Century Temperance Thermometer Has the Verdict.” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 23, 2014)
- “The CIA Used to Have a Commute-By-Canoe Club. One Member’s Memories.” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 19, 2014)
- “‘The Sun Never Sets Upon the British Empire,’ Explained in GIF by an Old Children’s Toy” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 18, 2014)
- “‘Human Life is Frightfully Cheap’: A 1900 Petition to Make Lynching a Federal Offense” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 16, 2014)
- ““19th-Century Infographic Shows American Mortality as a Cluster of Cute Little Charts” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 15, 2014)
- “Map Shows All of the Ways You Could Get Around Alaska in 1909” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 12, 2014)
- “The British Painters Who Were Eyewitnesses to World War II” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 12, 2014)
- “The Colorful Quilt Squares Chilean Women Used to Tell the Story of Life Under Pinochet” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 10, 2014)
- “Lock Up Your Wives!” (on marriage counseling before feminism) (Aeon Magazine, September 9, 2014)
- “An 1849 Guide to the Philadelphia Brothel Scene” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 8, 2014)
- “A Late 19th-Century Day-By-Day Commemorative Map of the Mormon Journey West” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 5, 2014)
- “A Kiowa Photographer’s Beautiful, Decades-Long Record of His Community and Family” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 3, 2014)
- “School-Sanctioned Mid-18th-Century Hazing Rituals at Harvard” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 2, 2014)
- “The Testimony of a Laborer Forced Into Peonage in Early 20th-Century Alabama” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 29, 2014)
- “Gorgeous, Creepy Pages From a Late 19th-Century Art Nouveau Occult Calendar” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 29, 2014)
- “The Patchwork Maps That Helped Prospectors Track Mining Claims in the American West” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 28, 2014)
- “Photos of 1920s Philadelphians, Hanging Out On Their Stoops” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 25, 2014)
- “Workers of the High Seas, Unite!” (Interview with historian Marcus Rediker) (Boston Globe Ideas section, August 24, 2014)
- “The Disastrous Cordon Sanitaire Used in Honolulu’s Chinatown in 1900” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 15, 2014)
- “A Photo Tour of the Flooded Mississippi, 1927” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 14, 2014)
- “Early Work” (Lapham’s Quarterly‘s Roundtable blog, August 14, 2014)
- “Who Counted as a ‘Fascist’ in Postwar Italy? How the Allies Decided” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 13, 2014)
- “The Ethereal Embossed Pages of a 19th-Century Atlas for the Blind” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 13, 2014)
- “Photos of ‘Soldiers’ Inventories’ Showcase 1,000 Years of Fighting Gear” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 8, 2014)
- “Gorgeous 1914 Relief Maps of Six National Parks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 7, 2014)
- “19th-Century Classified Ads for Abortifacients and Contraceptives” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 6, 2014)
- “American Boys at a Nazi Summer Camp, Upstate New York, Summer 1937” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 5, 2014)
- “The Blue-and-Green Elegance of Turn-of-the-Century Tennis Illustrations” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 1, 2014)
- “A Post-World War I ‘Hunger Map of Europe,’ Aimed at the Hearts of American Kids” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 31, 2014)
- “The First Generations of Paper Currency, Printed in Colonial Massachusetts” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 30, 2014)
- “Photo Postcards Made to Celebrate the Ruins of Black Neighborhoods After the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 29, 2014)
- “Hive Minds” (Lapham’s Quarterly‘s Roundtable blog, July 29, 2014)
- “The Documents A.J. Liebling Carried While Reporting Overseas During World War II” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 28, 2014)
- “A Transit Map of 1906 LA, With Copious Streetcars” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 25, 2014)
- “Gandhi’s 1942 Letter to FDR, Asking for Support for Indian Independence” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 23, 2014)
- “Honey, You’re Scaring the Kids” (The Appendix, July 25, 2014)
- “A School Progress Report for the Brontë Sisters” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 22, 2014)
- “Brigham Young’s Short-Lived, Experimental Mormon Alphabet” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 21, 2014)
- “A List of Missing Soldiers, Made After the First Black Union Army Regiment Stormed Fort Wagner” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 18, 2014)
- “19th-Century Japanese Prints Showing the Trials of Western Inventors” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 17, 2014)
- “A Physicist Eyewitness Sketches the First Atomic Test” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 16, 2014)
- “Those Funny 19th-Century ‘Reasons for Admission’ to Mental Institutions” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 15, 2014)
- “Reconstruction-Era Marriage Certificates of the Recently Emancipated” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 14, 2014)
- “‘Unclaimed Treasures of Science'” (Slate, July 13, 2014)
- “A Brief History of Hating Cities” (Boston Globe Ideas section, July 13, 2014)
- “The Black List: Public Shaming of the ‘Lewd and Scandalous’ in 18th-Century London” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 11, 2014)
- “Photos Show How Workers Crunched Census Data in 1940” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 10, 2014)
- “The Pre-Pregnancy Contract” (Slate Double X, July 10, 2014)
- “A US Intelligence Agency’s Map of German Concentration Camps, a Year Before Liberation” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 8, 2014)
- “A Thank-You Note From the Amistad Rebels to One of Their Lawyers, John Quincy Adams” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 7, 2014)
- “Deciphering Original Pages From the Voting Record of the Constitutional Convention” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 3, 2014)
- “A 19th-Century Panorama of the Beautiful, Reeking River Thames” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 1, 2014)
- “A 1931 Cartoon Map of ‘Chicago’s Gangland,’ Brimming With Wry, Macabre Details” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 25, 2014)
- “Government Child Care Advice From Early Soviet Propaganda Posters” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 24, 2014)
- “The Delicious Rations Promised to Prospective Soldiers of the Continental Army” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 23, 2014)
- “The Romantic, Hopeful French Pictorial Postcards of World War I” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 20, 2014)
- “The Puzzle-Writing, Puzzle-Solving Teen Subculture of the Late 19th Century” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 19, 2014)
- “Jane Austen’s Collection of Critical Feedback From Her (Sometimes Harsh) Friends and Family” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 18, 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)
- “A Unique Atlas Shows How Much of the Arctic Has Been Mapped by the Inuit” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 16, 2014)
- “An Uncommon Household: The history of an early American same-sex marriage” (Boston Globe Ideas section, June 13, 2014)
- “The Sniffy, Scandalized Letter That Sealed the UK Government’s Ban of Ulysses” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 12, 2014)
- “How Eisenhower Handled McCarthy’s Threat to a ‘Middle-of-the-Road’ GOP” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 11, 2014)
- “An Early Draft of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner, With All Those Verses We Never Sing” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 10, 2014)
- “A Detail-Packed Mid-19th-Century Map of World Religious Belief” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 9, 2014)
- “‘A Forlorn Little Rescue Party’: Post-Combat Interviews With D-Day Survivors From One Hard-Hit Company” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 6, 2014)
- “Photos of Late 19th-Century Bicycle Clubs Riding Their Penny-Farthings Around the Bay Area” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 5, 2014)
- “A 1940s Government Comic Book For People Who’ve Just Had DDT Sprayed on Their Walls” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 2, 2014)
- “Where To Find Historical ‘Redlining’ Maps Of Your City” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 30, 2014)
- “A Chinese-American Merchant’s Blistering Arguments Against Chinese Exclusion” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 28, 2014)
- “An 1886 Map of San Francisco’s Booming Business District” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 27, 2014)
- “His Son Killed in Action, Theodore Roosevelt Longed to Go to War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 23, 2014)
- “A Jazz Age New York Bohemian Dinner, In List Form” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 22, 2014)
- “The Beautifully Illustrated Family Records of Revolutionary War Soldiers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 21, 2014)
- “1909 Advice for Lady Motorists, In Pictures” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 20, 2014)
- “A Mournful 1876 Map Tracks the Disappearance of the American Bison” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 19, 2014)
- “Newspapers: A Brief Interlude in a Multimedia World” (Q&A with historian Andrew Pettegree) (Boston Globe Ideas section, May 18, 2014)
- “An Alabama Citizen’s 1924 Letter Asking the Government to Investigate the KKK” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 16, 2014)
- “Two Colorful Infographic Wheels Used to Track the Apollo Missions” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 15, 2014)
- “Late-19th-Century Vice Map Names and Shames Saloons and Brothels Around the White House” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 14, 2014)
- “The Neon Noir of Midcentury Vancouver” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 13, 2014)
- “An Evacuation Plan for White House Dependents During the Cuban Missile Crisis” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 12, 2014)
- “The Recommendation Letter Ralph Waldo Emerson Wrote for a Job-Hunting Walt Whitman” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 9, 2014)
- “Scroll Down the Mid-19th-Century Mississippi River Using This Super-Long Map” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 8, 2014)
- “Utterly Charming Photos of 1920s Chicago Kids Dressed Up as Flowers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 7, 2014)
- “The Rum Jar, the Flying Pig, and the Ypres Express: WWI Slang for Germany’s Terrifying Munitions” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 6, 2014)
- “An Illustrated Map of Stars’ Homes from the Golden Age of Hollywood” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 5, 2014)
- “‘It Is Difficult to Know How to Begin’: A U.S. Soldier Writes Home from Dachau” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 2, 2014)
- “A Dizzying Clock Chart From the Pre-Time-Zone Era Proves That Time Zones Are Wonderful” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 1, 2014)
- “The Relentless WWII War Bond Propaganda Could Be Really Irritating” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 30, 2014)
- “An Early 20th-Century Traveler Maps His Journey on a New Chinese Railroad” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 29, 2014)
- “Photos Show How the American Museum of Natural History Made Its Blue Whale Swim” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 28, 2014)
- “Fineable Offenses for Naughty 18th-Century Students at Harvard” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 25, 2014)
- “19th-Century Maps Tracking Major Diseases Across the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 24, 2014)
- “Memo Evaluating Possible Screenwriters for Gone with the Wind Is Frank on the Subject of Faulkner” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 23, 2014)
- “Striking Photos of Early 20th-Century Baseball Players in Motion” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 22, 2014)
- “A Peek Inside the Mother-Daughter Collaboration That Brought Us the Little House Series” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 21, 2014)
- “Mapping the Intensity of the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 18, 2014)
- “Forget Madonna and Angelina. Josephine Baker Adopted 12 Children From Around the Globe” (Slate, April 18, 2014)
- “A 19th-Century Flowchart Helps You Ask Good Geographical Questions” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 17, 2014)
- “Beautiful Photo Portraits of People Doing Their Jobs on the Streets of Late 19th-Century New York” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 16, 2014)
- “FDR’s Forgotten Instructions for a Simple Funeral and Burial” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 15, 2014)
- “The Lincoln Assassination, as Seen Through the Pages of a D.C. Police Blotter” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 14, 2014)
- “The Awful Emptiness of ‘Relatable'” (Slate‘s Lexicon Valley blog, April 11, 2014)
- “Pretty Environmental Propaganda Posters from 1980s China” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 11, 2014)
- “Newly Digitized Photo Archive Takes a Personal Look at Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker Movement” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 10, 2014)
- “When Smartphones Attack” (review of Alena Graedon’s The Word Exchange) (Slate Book Review, April 9, 2013)
- “Early 20th-Century Spirit Photographs Specializing in Faked Ectoplasm” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 9, 2014)
- “Crappy Taxidermy Internet Meme Is Really Sort of Sad” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, April 8, 2014)
- “This Spreading Tree Chart Shows the Midcentury Explosion in Uses of Petroleum” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 8, 2014)
- “Tracking a Slave Trader Through His Expense Reports” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 7, 2014)
- “A New York City Firefighting Map from 1834 Will Make You Very Thankful It’s 2014” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 4, 2014)
- “Who Was This Kindly Looking Man Who Took Hundreds of Photobooth Selfies in the Mid-20th Century?” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 3, 2014)
- “One Sailor’s Sketched Memories of a World War II Shipwreck” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 2, 2014)
- “The First Wizard of Oz-Themed Board Game, Sold to 1920s Superfans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 1, 2014)
- “Eleanor Roosevelt’s Durable Wisdom on Curiosity, Empathy, Education & Responding to Criticism” (Open Culture, April 1, 2014)
- “The 1897 Petition Against Annexation That More Than Half of All Native Hawaiians Signed” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 28, 2014)
- “Dramatic 1908 Temperance Map Has the Best Names for the Bad Places Drinkers Will Visit” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 26, 2014)
- “The Tank-Building Learning Curve, as Seen in Photos Taken Inside WWII Factories” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 25, 2014)
- “Going Viral in the Nineteenth Century” (Lapham’s Quarterly‘s Roundtable blog, March 25, 2014)
- “Watch the Extremely Simple Short Films That Charmed Late 19th-Century Iowans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 24, 2014)
- “March 25? Happy Colonial New Year!” (Boston Globe Ideas section, March 23, 2014)
- “Tubercular? Insane? Polygamist? Things That Could Exclude You From Emigrating to the US in 1910” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 19, 2014)
- “A Brooklyn Woman’s Colorful Quilt, Illustrating Her Experience of the Civil War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 18, 2014)
- “How Guests at Late 19th-Century Luxury Hotels Ordered Up Their Sherry and Manservants” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 17, 2014)
- “Searching for the Farmers Who Posed for Government Photographers During the Depression” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 14, 2014)
- “Mark Twain’s Recommended Reading for Young People” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 11, 2014)
- “An Itsy-Bitsy Early 18th-Century Pocket Globe” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 11, 2014)
- “The Exquisite Wistfulness of 19th-Century Vegetarian Personal Ads” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 10, 2014)
- “How Grand Hotels Shaped Modern Life” (Boston Globe Ideas section, March 9, 2014)
- “The ‘Can’t Get There From Here’ Railroad Map of 1854 New England” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 7, 2014)
- “Susan B. Anthony’s Indictment for Voting While Female” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 6, 2014)
- “The ‘Coffin Handbill’ Andrew Jackson’s Enemies Used to Circulate Word of his ‘Bloody Deeds'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 5, 2014)
- “Hand-Drawn Early-20th-Century Charts Showing the State of African-American Economic Life” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 4, 2014)
- “Download 15K+ Free Golden Age Comics from the Digital Comic Museum” (Open Culture, March 3, 2014)
- “How to Build a POW Camp for Captured Germans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 3, 2014)
- “A 1940s Board Game for French Kids Taught Tactics for Successful Colonialism” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 28, 2014)
- “How To Keep Your Neighbors From Panicking After the Bomb Drops” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 27, 2014)
- “Historical Chart of the Causes, Milestones, and Battles of the Revolutionary War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 26, 2014)
- “Bizarre and Colorful Vintage Circus Posters Featuring Animal Performers” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, February 26, 2014)
- “When Wolf-Killing Was Legal, and Paid Well” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 25, 2014)
- “A Beautiful 1880s Geography Game for the ‘Rising Generation'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 24, 2014)
- “11 Historical Uses for Invisible Ink” (Mental Floss.com, February 24, 2014)
- “The CIA’s 1961 ‘Personality Sketch’ of Nikita Khrushchev” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 21, 2014)
- “Convicts Transported to Australia Left Loved Ones With These Emotional Tokens of Their Affections” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 20, 2014)
- “A 19th-Century Mother’s Handwritten Record of Her Babies’ Childhood Illnesses” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 19, 2014)
- “Should We Destroy Our Ivory Art Out Of Guilt? Prince William Seems to Think So” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, February 19, 2014)
- “Interviews with Young Historians” (Appendix Journal, February 18, 2014)
- “The Lincoln Speeches a Mourning Nation Most Loved to Remember” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 16, 2014)
- “Browse the Magical Worlds of Harry Houdini’s Scrapbooks” (Open Culture, February 16, 2014)
- “Virginia Poe’s Sad Acrostic Valentine for Edgar Allan” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 13, 2014)
- “Common 19th-Century Arguments Against Women’s Suffrage, Neatly Refuted” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 12, 2014)
- “Shirley Temple’s Earliest Movies Are Really Hard to Watch” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 11, 2014)
- “A 1930 Chinese Comic-Book Edition of All Quiet on the Western Front” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 10, 2014)
- “An Enlisted Woman’s Quiet Sketches of Friends Serving in the British Royal Navy During WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 6, 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 First Modern Organizational Chart Is a Thing of Beauty” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 5, 2014)
- “Dramatic Art Deco Illustrations of the Phobias of Modern Life” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 4, 2014)
- “A Beautiful, False 19th-Century Pedigree for George Washington” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 3, 2014)
- “An Eccentric Millionaire’s 1875 Pork Map of the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 31, 2014)
- “A Trove of Photographs of African-American Community Life in Jazz-Age New Orleans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 28, 2014)
- “All the Violent Shows on TV in Chicago, One Day in 1954” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 27, 2014)
- “1919 Map of New York City’s Manufacturers Shows a Bygone Industrial Landscape” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 23, 2014)
- “How Janet Malcolm Turns Emily Dickinson’s Poetry Into Visual Art” (Slate‘s Browbeat blog, January 23, 2014)
- “How Londoners Died in One Plague-Ridden Week in 1665” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 22, 2014)
- “Download 100K+ Images From the History of Medicine, All Free Courtesy of the Wellcome Library” (Open Culture, January 21, 2014)
- “In Suggestions for Victorious Bus Boycotters, MLK’s Powerful Turn Toward Nonviolence” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 17, 2014)
- “The Fascinating Things You Learn From Reading Very Old Polls” (Slate‘s Browbeat blog, January 17, 2014)
- “Photos of Contemporary Workers with Ancient Artifacts from the Earliest Histories of Their Jobs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 16, 2014)
- “The Battered First-Aid Kits That Accompanied Early-20th-Century Explorers on Their Journeys” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 14, 2014)
- “A Pretty 1940 Map of American Diversity, Annotated by Langston Hughes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 13, 2014)
- “Read 700 Free Ebooks Made Available By the University of California Press” (Open Culture, January 12, 2014)
- “Some Everyday Words That Meant Really Different Things to Early American Colonists” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 10, 2014)
- “Chart Shows Occupations of Soldiers Most Likely to Be Rejected by the Union Army. (Sorry, Editors, Barkeeps, and Tailors.)” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 9, 2014)
- “A Beautiful Driftwood-and-Sealskin Map, Carved by an Inuit Hunter in 1925” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 8, 2014)
- “The Government Advice That Scared 750,000 Britons Into Euthanizing Their Pets” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 7, 2014)
- “Map Shows How States Handled Child Labor Laws Before Federal Regulation” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 6, 2014)
- “Some of the Earliest Maps of Stonehenge, Made by a Druid-Obsessed English Vicar” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 3, 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
- “A Map of Hundreds of Noise Complaints in 1920s Manhattan, and Four Other Stupendous Digital History Projects” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 30, 2013)
- “Some Movies and TV Are Gone Forever” (Boston Globe Ideas section, December 29, 2013)
- “Small Town Noir, and Four Other Astonishing Digital History Sites We Loved in 2013” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 27, 2013)
- “Test Your Victorian Celebrity IQ” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 26, 2013)
- “On Christmas, Browse a Historical Archive of More Than 50,000 Toys” (Open Culture, December 25, 2013)
- “How The Civil War Helped Make Christmas A Permanent American Tradition” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 23, 2013)
- “‘How Much Have We Spent on Native Americans?’ In 1894, the Government Put It In Numbers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 20, 2013)
- “When Students Went to School Outside–Even in Winter” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 19, 2013)
- “Pages from a Gorgeous Illustrated Atlas of 19th-Century Mexico” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 18, 2013)
- “Some Cons and Frauds Common on the Streets of 1980s NYC” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 17, 2013)
- “A Converted Skeptic’s Report on a Visit to 8-Year-Old Mozart” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 16, 2013)
- “Studs Terkel Interviews Bob Dylan, Shel Silverstein, Maya Angelou & More in New Audio Trove” (Open Culture, December 16, 2013)
- “Nineteenth-Century Dog Tags…For Civilians” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 13, 2013)
- “Einstein’s 1941 Letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, Begging Asylum for Jewish Refugees” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 13, 2013)
- “The Army’s Advice for Soldiers Headed for the Korean War: ‘Respect Your Allies'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 11, 2013)
- “Counting Fifes and Drums in George Washington’s Army” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 10, 2013)
- “Gender-Ratio Map Shows Where the Men Were In 1870” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 9, 2013)
- “A WWII-Era Protest Letter, Sent By Japanese-American Internees Resisting the Draft” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 5, 2013)
- “Life Advice for Young Men That Went Viral in the 1850s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 4, 2013)
- “‘Having a Baby’ in 1942: One Couple’s Utterly Charming Homemade Documentary” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 3, 2013)
- “John Brown’s Passionate ‘Declaration of Liberty,’ Written on a Lengthy Scroll” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 2, 2013)
- “A British Teacher’s Archive of Confiscated Toys” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 27, 2013)
- “The Snake-Eaters and the Yards: The Vietnamese Tribesmen Who Fought Alongside American Special Forces Won the Green Berets’ Admiration–And Lost Everything Else” (Slate, November 27, 2013)
- “Map Promising 1897 Travelers the ‘Good Roads’ In and Around Philadelphia” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 26, 2013)
- “Learn Cherokee Words for ‘Dog,’ ‘Harp,’ ‘Star,’ and More, Using An 1888 Primer” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 25, 2013)
- “‘I Rely On You. I Need You.’ How LBJ Begged JFK’s Cabinet to Stay” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 22, 2013)
- “Condolence Telegrams for Jackie, from MLK, Duke Ellington, Douglas MacArthur, and More” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 21, 2013)
- “In the JFK Aftermath, A Dallas Minister’s Moving, Controversial Sermon Against Extremism” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 20, 2013)
- “In Austin, the ‘Welcome, JFK!’ Banquet That Never Happened” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 20, 2013)
- “‘It All Began So Beautifully’: Lady Bird’s Emotional Memories of November 22, 1963” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 18, 2013)
- “The ‘Wanted for Treason’ Flyer Distributed in Dallas Before JFK’s Visit” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 15, 2013)
- “In A Prophetic Letter, A Dallas Citizen Begged JFK Not To Visit” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 15, 2013)
- “In A Captivating Panoramic Display, 1920s ‘Bathing Girls’ Show How Quickly Fashions Changed” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 14, 2013)
- “In This Strange 1950 Newsreel Footage, Watch a Texas Mom Throw Knives At Her Daughters” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 12, 2013)
- “‘Be White To Your Dogs.’ Why People Are So Outraged About A Canadian Survival Story” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, November 12, 2013)
- “Some Choice Bits of Slang From American Soldiers Serving in WWII” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 11, 2013)
- “An Illustrated Descent into a ‘White Slave Hell’ in 1910 Chicago” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 8, 2013)
- “The Journey to the California Gold Rush Was No Joke. This Map Was a Prospector’s Friend” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 7, 2013)
- “Photo Album Documents 1915 Road Trip Along the New Los Angeles Aqueduct” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 5, 2013)
- “How the Government Monitored Life on a 1920s Reservation” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 4, 2013)
- “The Best Animal Songs Ever Written: Our Neko Case Playlist” (Slate‘s Wild Things blog, November 1, 2013)
- “The Creepy, Beautiful ‘Blood Book’ Made By A Scrapbooking Victorian Gentleman” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 31, 2013)
- “In A Snarky Letter, John Adams Assesses George Washington’s ‘Talents'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 29, 2013)
- “The WWII Maps That Told Japanese Soldiers About Air-Raid Damage To Their Cities” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 28, 2013)
- “Test Your Kids’ Knowledge Against the Well-Informed Children of 1930” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 25, 2013)
- “Chilling Cold-War-Era Billboard Slogans, Drafted For Use After An Attack on the US” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 24, 2013)
- “Haunting Photos Show Aftermath of 19th-Century Train Wrecks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 23, 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)
- “Two of Emily Dickinson’s First Drafts, Scrawled on Old Envelopes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 28, 2013)
- “Map Shows the Most Syphilitic States in the Union” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 18, 2013)
- “Beyond ’12 Years a Slave’: The Signatures of Hundreds Who Sued For Freedom” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 17, 2013)
- “George Bernard Shaw’s Wry Answers to a Journalist’s Questionnaire About God” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 16, 2013)
- “What 20th-Century Tarring and Feathering Looked Like” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 15, 2013)
- “A Few Awkwardly Outdated Jokes for WWI-Era Boy Scouts” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 11, 2013)
- “Government to Employers During WWII: ‘You’re Going To Hire Women. Here’s How to Deal'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 10, 2013)
- “A Gorgeous 1929 Map of the U.S. Given to the First Transcontinental Air Travelers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 8, 2013)
- “Strangely Beautiful Illustrations of 19th-Century Patients With Skin Diseases” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 4, 2013)
- “Julia Child’s List of Discarded Titles for Mastering the Art of French Cooking” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 3, 2013)
- “Watch Gene Kelly Channel ‘Combat Fatigue Irritability’ in a WWII Navy Training Film” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 2, 2013)
- “An 1870 Map of the US Shows Where All the Money Was” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 1, 2013)
- “Ship’s Manifest from 1833 Shows 83 People Caught in the Domestic Slave Trade” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 30, 2013)
- “Eight Types of 18th-Century Lady Drunks (Some NSFW)” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 27, 2013)
- “Mugshots of Bruised and Battered Boxers in Early 20th-Century San Francisco” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 26, 2013)
- “Do Cigarettes Make You Insane? Some Anti-Tobacco Arguments from the 1920s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 25, 2013)
- “How Literate Are You by 1918 Standards? Take This Oddly Poetic Test” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 24, 2013)
- “How to Sketch a Terrible Place: A Union POW’s Hand-Drawn Map of Andersonville Prison” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 23, 2013)
- “A Serious Security Handbook for Civil Rights Volunteers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 20, 2013)
- “Some Exceptionally Vivid Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 19, 2013)
- “Woodward’s Notes, Typed from Memory, on His Meetings With Deep Throat” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 18, 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)
- “Picking Through George Washington’s Trash” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 12, 2013)
- “Pretty Pincushions, Embroidered by British Soldiers in WWI and Sent to Their Sweethearts Back Home” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 11, 2013)
- “Pages from an Underground Railroad Conductor’s Diary Preserve Fugitive Slaves’ Stories” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 10, 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 Tennessee Valley Authority vs. the Family That Just Wouldn’t Leave” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 5, 2013)
- “The Map That Lincoln Used to See the Reach of Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 4, 2013)
- “The Colorful Posters That Motivated Jazz-Age Workers to Strive” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 31, 2013)
- “Pages from a 19th-Century Schoolgirl’s Gorgeous Hand-Drawn Atlas of the United States” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 30, 2013)
- “Seeds of Lovecraft’s ‘Mountains of Madness,” in His Terrifying, Tightly-Packed Notes” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 28, 2013)
- “How to Host a Protest: Pages from the Organizers’ Handbook for the March on Washington” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 27, 2013)
- “The Saucy Juvenile Ballads Yankees Used to Taunt Jefferson Davis” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 23, 2013)
- “Tracking Feminism, From Inside Nixon’s Administration” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 22, 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 Hottest Celebrity of Early 19th-Century America Was a 67-Year-Old Frenchman” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 19, 2013)
- “An Astonishing Catalog of the Violence Committed Against Freedom Summer Participants in a Single Mississippi Town” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 15, 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)
- “Fifty Years Before Boondocks There Was Patty-Jo n Ginger” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 13, 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)
- “Color Footage of Hiroshima, Rebuilding from the Rubble” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 8, 2013)
- “How to Stage An Action Sequence in 1935: An Effects Master’s Colorful Portfolio” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 7, 2013)
- “Lincoln’s Promise: We’ll Take an Eye for an Eye to Protect Our Black Troops” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 6, 2013)
- “After the Revolution, a Patriot Edits His Hymnal Accordingly” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 5, 2013)
- “A Map of Vice in San Francisco’s Chinatown, 1885” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 2, 2013)
- “A Script for the Queen’s Speech, in Case of Nuclear War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 1, 2013)
- “Fake Photos of WWI Aerial Combat That Really Had People Fooled” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 31, 2013)
- “Photo Album: When Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Went Car-Camping” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 30, 2013)
- “A Passionate Letter from a Lawyer in Support of Resistance to the Vietnam Draft” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 29, 2013)
- “How to Mock a Nazi: Two Russian Posters That Hit ‘Em Where It Hurt” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 26, 2013)
- “An Open Invitation to Seek Out the Center of the Earth” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 25, 2013)
- “Minutes from a 1920s KKK Meeting on Special KKK Stationery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 24, 2013)
- “Pages from Hemingway’s Baby Books” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 23, 2013)
- “A Wise Letter of Advice for Young Magazine Editors, 1945” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 22, 2013)
- “Where Did Americans Live in 1930? Two Vintage Population Visualizations” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 19, 2013)
- “A Psychedelic Anti-Drug Film From 1971 That Made Drugs Look Pretty Fun” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 18, 2013)
- “The Fantastical Allure of the Space Whale” (Lapham’s Quarterly‘s Roundtable blog, July 18, 2013)
- “A Suffragette Describes What It Felt Like to Be Force-Fed” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 17, 2013)
- “A Citizen’s Letter Tattling on Some AWOL Soldiers, 1918” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 16, 2013)
- “An Elaborate, Beautiful, Failed Vision for Central Park” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 15, 2013)
- “An 1894 Hopi Petition: ‘Let Us Keep Our Communal Land'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 12, 2013)
- “The Government Tested a Flying Saucer in 1956. Here’s the Full Report” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 11, 2013)
- “How the Soviets Used Our Civil Rights Conflicts Against Us” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 9, 2013)
- “‘Cave In, Boys’: A Leaflet Aimed at the Confederate Defenders of Vicksburg” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 9, 2013)
- “Update: On the Hunt for the Original Louisiana Literacy Test” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 3, 2013)
- “‘Laus Deo!’: Celebrating a Huge Victory in the Revolutionary War” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 3, 2013)
- “A Coded Postcard From a Poet Headed to the Somme” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 2, 2013)
- “Take the Impossible ‘Literacy’ Test Louisiana Gave Black Voters in the 1960s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 28, 2013)
- “An Invitation to New York’s First-Ever Gay Pride Parade” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 27, 2013)
- “A 17th-Century Sex Manual That’s Legitimately Raunchy” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 26, 2013)
- “A Handwritten Newspaper, Produced by Confederate POWs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 25, 2013)
- “This Map Proves It: The Lower East Side Once Had Even More Bars Per Block” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 21, 2013)
- “A Cheerful ‘Diploma’ For Participants in A-Bomb Testing” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 20, 2013)
- “Photos: When Segregation Reached Right Into the National Parks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 19, 2013)
- “In Which Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Plot Ways to Look Uglier” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 18, 2013)
- “E.E. Cummings’ Colorful, Imaginative Childhood Drawings” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 17, 2013)
- “When Edison Tried to Make Single-Pour Concrete Houses Happen” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 14, 2013)
- “How to Pick a Soldier for the Continental Army (No Short Guys Need Apply)” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 13, 2013)
- “Medgar Evers Was Killed 50 Years Ago Today. Here Is the Program From His Funeral” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 12, 2013)
- “In This Photo, German Soldiers React to Footage of Concentration Camps” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 11, 2013)
- “Watch One of the First Female Standups Own the Room on Live TV” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 10, 2013)
- “What A Platoon Leader Wore To Storm Omaha Beach, 69 Years Ago Today” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 6, 2013)
- “A Hand-Drawn Map of Bohemian Greenwich Village, 1925” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 5, 2013)
- “A Teenage Emily Dickinson’s Careful Collection of Dried Flowers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 4, 2013)
- “Arrested Development, Season 4: Jessica Walter is the Best Actor on Arrested Development” (chat with June Thomas) (Slate‘s TV Club, June 3, 2013)
- “Paul Revere’s Vision of Occupied Boston” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 3, 2013)
- “On His Birthday, a Short and Sweet Walt Whitman Poem About Being 71” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 31, 2013)
- “Arrested Development, Season 4: Tobias Gets Served” (chat with Lowen Liu) (Slate‘s TV Club, May 20, 2013)
- “A Few of Stella Adler’s Notes on Tennessee Williams’ Female Characters” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 30, 2013)
- “In a Letter to His Son, Teddy Roosevelt’s Grinning Self-Portrait” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 29, 2013)
- “Video: When Heston, Poitier, Brando, Baldwin, and Belafonte Sat Down to Talk Civil Rights” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 28, 2013)
- “Four WWII Posters That Taught Soldiers to Identify Chemical Weapons By Smell” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 24, 2013)
- “‘A Terrible Evil’: Edgar Allan Poe Writes About His Wife’s Illness and Death” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 23, 2013)
- “The Other NRA (Or How the Philadelphia Eagles Got Their Name)” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 22, 2013)
- “What to Bring to a War: A Packing List for WWII Army Nurses” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 21, 2013)
- “Eleanor Roosevelt’s License to Pack Heat” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 20, 2013)
- “How That Nineteenth-Century Handwriting Got So Pretty” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 17, 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)
- “A ’70s Newsletter for Feminist Men” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 13, 2013)
- “Sketching the Emancipation of Jefferson Davis’ Slaves” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 10, 2013)
- “‘A Closet Racist and Friend of the Rich’: Reagan’s Response to a Citizen Critic” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 9, 2013)
- “Do You Have the Right Personality to Become a Secretary in 1959? Take This Quiz” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 8, 2013)
- “Caught on Tape: The Hindenburg’s Fiery Demise” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 6, 2013)
- “Selling Creativity to America’s Kids” (Q&A with design historian Amy Ogata) (Boston Globe Ideas section, May 5, 2013)
- “Foundling Tokens: For Surrendered Children, a Final Tie to Family” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 2, 2013)
- “Theodore Roosevelt’s White House Bird List” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 1, 2013)
- “German Caricatures of Napoleon’s Army ‘In Shambles'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 30, 2013)
- “Vonnegut Volunteers for the JFK Campaign, 1960” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 29, 2013)
- “An 1817 Cheat Sheet for Nervous Dancers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 25, 2013)
- “An 1893 Letter Promising Compensation to Former Owners of Slaves” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 24, 2013)
- “Bram Stoker’s Ever-Evolving List of Characters for Dracula” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 23, 2013)
- “For Sale: Milton Berle’s Complete Joke Files” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 22, 2013)
- “The Confederate Helicopter That Never Got Off the Ground” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 19, 2013)
- “Waltzing with Eisenhower: A Collection of West Point Dance Cards, 1915” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 18, 2013)
- “After the Titanic, the Lawsuits” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 16, 2013)
- “Jackie Robinson’s 1963 Telegram to JFK: ‘The World Cannot Afford to Lose MLK'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 12, 2013)
- “The Not-So-Accidental Racism of Post-Civil-War Songs About the South” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 9, 2013)
- “To Catch a Swindler, 1887 Edition” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 9, 2013)
- “Threats From a Ghost: An 1868 Intimidation Letter Sent by the KKK” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 8, 2013)
- “The Way of the Egghead Is Hard” (review of Aaron Lecklider’s Inventing the Egghead) (Slate Book Review, April 5, 2013)
- “Listening to Records That No Longer Exist” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 4, 2013)
- “The ‘Grecian Bend’: The Most Preposterous Ladies’ Fashion Trend of the 1860s” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 3, 2013)
- “Speakeasy Cards: A Prohibition-Era Ticket to Drink” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 2, 2013)
- “The 17th-Century Remixed Bible That Charmed A King” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 1, 2013)
- “George Bernard Shaw’s Polite but Firm Autoreply Postcard for Unsolicited Mail” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 28, 2013)
- “A Pigeon’s Message From the ‘Lost Battalion'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 27, 2013)
- “Yesterday’s ‘Deadliest Catch’: Collecting the World’s Most Dangerous Jobs, 1890” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 26, 2013)
- “Colorful 19th-Century Japanese Woodblock Prints Depict the Fight Against Contagion” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 25, 2013)
- “Stitching the Solar System: Science as Needlepoint, 1811” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 20, 2013)
- “Russell Banks’ Real-Time Notes on Adjusting to the Word Processor” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 19, 2013)
- “Steampunk Before Steampunk Existed: Charles Dellschau’s Fantastic Airships” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 18, 2013)
- “Gas Thieves and Gas Defenders in the 1973-4 Oil Crisis” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 15, 2013)
- “Langston Hughes’ Collection of Harlem Rent Party Advertisements” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 14, 2013)
- “A Teenaged Charlotte Bronte’s Tiny Little Romance” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 13, 2013)
- “Hear Harry Houdini Introduce His Famous ‘Water Torture’ Escape” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 12, 2013)
- “Vintage Infographics: Where Women Worked in 1920” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 11, 2013)
- “Montgomery Clift Squirms Through a Montgomery Clift Movie” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 7, 2013)
- “When LBJ Drove on Water” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 6, 2013)
- “Going to Summer Kamp with the KKK” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 5, 2013)
- “How the Boy Scouts Became the Heroes of the 1913 Parade for Women’s Suffrage” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 4, 2013)
- “Leaving Your Brain to Science? Please Fill Out This Form” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 28, 2013)
- “A Kiowa Warrior’s Drawings of Captivity and Assimilation” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 27, 2013)
- “The American Government’s Advice for Yeti Hunters, 1959” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 26, 2013)
- “How the Mango Became the Fruit of Mao” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 25, 2013)
- “Listen to Will Rogers Tell a Group of Bankers What He Really Thinks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 22, 2013)
- “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Wants Nothing To Do With Your Proust Questionnaire” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 21, 2013)
- “The Jell-O Box That Helped Convict the Rosenbergs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 20, 2013)
- “Eyewitness Accounts of the Last Time A Heavenly Body Exploded Over Russia” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 15, 2013)
- “Fastest Courtship in the West: How LBJ Won Lady Bird” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 14, 2013)
- “When Valentines Were Really, Really Mean” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 13, 2013)
- “The Goofy, Anti-Nazi Parody Film That Enraged Goebbels” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 12, 2013)
- “A Midcentury Travel Guide for African-American Drivers Navigating Jim Crow” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 11, 2013)
- “The World’s First Baby Monitor: Zenith’s 1937 ‘Radio Nurse'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 7, 2013)
- “Marlon Brando’s Little Black Book” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 6, 2013)
- “A Plea For Help from Nazi-Occupied Austria” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 5, 2013)
- “Early Hackers’ Supersecret Spyware: Toy Whistles” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 1, 2013)
- “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Letter to a Fellow Author: Compliments, Criticism, and Applejack” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 31, 2013)
- “A Look Inside the Astonishing Black Panther Murder Trial of 1970-71” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 30, 2013)
- “The ‘Cemetery Gun’: One Defense Against Grave Robbers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 29, 2013)
- “One 18th-Century Merchant Takes a Stand Against Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 28, 2013)
- “Celebrity Baby Feeding Frenzy, 1920s-Style” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 25, 2013)
- “‘F is for Fugitive’: A Fantastic 1864 Children’s Book About the Evil of Slavery” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 24, 2013)
- “Mark Twain Draws His Self-Portrait” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 23, 2013)
- “An East German Mother Passes Her Baby to Freedom Across the Berlin Wall” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 22, 2013)
- “When Citizen Vigilantes Busted Food Hoarders” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 21, 2013)
- “Nixon Giggles as President Eisenhower Gets Lassoed at His Inauguration” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 18, 2013)
- “This Pay Chart Shows Exactly How Louisiana Used to Discriminate Against Black Teachers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 16, 2013)
- “Emily Dickinson Scrawled Her Poems on These Tiny Scraps of Paper” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 15, 2013)
- “Coping With a Raging Case of Beatlemania” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 14, 2013)
- “The Sad History of the Kid-Sized Handcuffs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 11, 2013)
- “The Man Who Fought in Lincoln’s Name” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 10, 2013)
- “Photo: Snipers on the Streets of Paris, 1944” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 9, 2013)
- “A Lynching Map of the United States, 1900-1931” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 8, 2013)
- “Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Husband Claims His Own Little House” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 7, 2013)
- “Advice on Hemp from Benjamin Franklin’s Paper” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 4, 2013)
- “Fitness Instruction From 1920s Chorus Girls” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 3, 2013)
- “An Eeensy-Weensy New Year’s Gift” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 2, 2013)
2012
- “Carriers’ Addresses: A New Year Tradition Gone By” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 28, 2012)
- “A Soldier’s Illustrated New Year’s Greeting” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 27, 2012)
- “A Cure for the Post-Christmas Hangover” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 26, 2012)
- “Edsel Ford’s Letter to Santa” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 25, 2012)
- “General Sherman’s Surprise Christmas Present for President Lincoln” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 20, 2012)
- “Lost Invention: The Christmas Tree Vibrator” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 19, 2012)
- “Christmas Games of Yesteryear” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 17, 2012)
- “Squashing the Squander Bug in Wartime Britain” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 13, 2012)
- “When a President Was an Action Figure” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 11, 2012)
- “Abraham Lincoln’s Advice to Young Lawyers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 11, 2012)
- “The Mole Skin That Got a Civil War Widow Her Pension” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 7, 2012)
- “John F. Kennedy, Apprehender of Horse Thieves” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 6, 2012)
- “A Patriotic Song of the Revolutionary War, Hidden in a Schoolboy’s Book” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 5, 2012)
- “A Get-Well Pictogram From Hemingway’s WWI Drinking Buddies” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 4, 2012)
- “Pink Science, 50s-Style” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 13, 2012)
- Review of Ginger Strand’s Killer on the Road (Austin-American Statesman, June 16, 2012)
- “Tatum and Hill Have Easy, Funny Rapport” (interview with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum) (Austin-American Statesman, March 15, 2012)
2011
- “In A Different Sea” (Songbirds and Satellites, November 9, 2011)
- “Young and Hot: Saci Lloyd’s The Carbon Diaries” (Songbirds and Satellites, September 6, 2011)
- “Deep in the Wonder Book of Knowledge” (Songbirds and Satellites, July 21, 2011)
- “Cream O’ The Crop” (Songbirds and Satellites, June 1, 2011)
- “Going (Retroactively) Digital: Self-Archiving for Fun and Profit” (Songbirds and Satellites, April 25, 2011)
- “Pasteur for Kids” (Songbirds and Satellites, April 4, 2011)
- “Nuclear Fears, Soothed by Poop, Turtles” (Songbirds and Satellites, March 25, 2011)
- “The Future Is Not Going To Be Like The Past: Mark Hertsgaard’s Hot: Living Through The Next Fifty Years On Earth” (Songbirds and Satellites, February 25, 2011)
- “Killing Dollies, in the Name of the State” (Songbirds and Satellites, February 10, 2011)
- “Shades of Science Fairs Past: Kids at the American Museum of Natural History” (Songbirds and Satellites, February 2, 2011)
- “Sputnik Moment: Science as Destiny” (Songbirds and Satellites, January 27, 2011)
- “Faraway Fronts, Close to Home” [PDF] (Paperweight, Spring/Summer 2011)
2010
- “Drowning in Toys” (Songbirds and Satellites, December 17, 2010)
- “Science vs. Childhood on ‘Fringe'” (Songbirds and Satellites, November 29, 2010)
- “In the Dusty Toy-Bin of History at the Strong Museum” (Songbirds and Satellites, November 12, 2010)
- “Being a Kid After the Bomb” (Songbirds and Satellites, October 29, 2010)
- “Sweet Science Propaganda from They Might Be Giants” (Songbirds and Satellites, October 22, 2010)
- “Archival Gleanings from the Chemical Heritage Foundation” (Songbirds and Satellites, October 14, 2010)
- “Velcro’s Generation of Idiots” (Songbirds and Satellites, October 8, 2010)
- “The Skinned Trilogy on the Market: Teenage Robots and ‘Humanity’s Future'” (Songbirds and Satellites, September 27, 2010)
- “Screening Winky-Dink: The First Interactive TV Show” [PDF] (Paperweight, Autumn/Winter 2010)
2008
- “Envirogeddon!: Is It Time to Start Wishing For the End of the World?” (Slate, April 21, 2008)
2007
- “Not-So-Great Salt Lake: Why Have Even the Environmentalists Given Up on the Salton Sea?” (Slate, October 16, 2007)
- “Dog Days” (on celebrity sled dogs of the early 20th c) [PDF] (The Crier, 2007)
2006
- “Rural Legends” (AMC Outdoors, October 2006)
- “‘Tree So Horny’: What Happens When Sex Sells Environmentalism?” [PDF] (Bitch Magazine, Fall 2006)
- “Wild Things” (on the paintings of Walton Ford) [PDF] (The Crier, Fall 2006)
2005
- “Let’s Talk About Sex” (on abstinence-only education) [PDF] (ELLEgirl, April 2005)
- “Student Counsel” (interview with activist Shelby Knox) [PDF] (Bitch Magazine, Summer 2005)
- “Sharksploitation!: Jaws and the Sad Decline of the Shark Movie” (Slate, June 16, 2005)
2003
- “Flick Chicks” (on girls who love “Lord of the Rings”) [PDF] (The New Republic online, December 19, 2003)
- “Captive Audience” [PDF] (The New Republic, online; November 2003)
- “The Double Lives They Lead” [PDF] (The New Republic, online; October 22, 2003)
- “Whiz Girl Wows Them All” [PDF Part One] [PDF Part Two] (YM, September 2003)
- “Punk Rock Saints” [PDF Part One] [PDF Part Two] (YM, July 2003)
2002
- “The Soldier and the Pacifist” [PDF Part One] [PDF Part Two] (YM, August 2002)
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