Rebecca Onion

How "Choose Your Own Adventure" books indoctrinated ‘80s children with the idea that success is simply the result of individual “good choices.”

Women are slightly better at hand-washing than men. Here’s one theory for why.

From Hemingway to Mencken, no one thought a woman could write about combat.

“The child is made to study far, far beyond his physical strength.”

Conservative uproar over the 1619 Project is just the most recent clash in a battle over how we should understand America’s past.

When modern conservatives associate activists of color with communism, they’re drawing on a racist history that goes back over 100 years.

If “living history” role-plays in the classroom can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning them?

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.

Newly released recordings of 'Citizens’ Council Radio Forum' show white supremacy’s evolution through the civil rights era.

Sure, it came on the heels of World War I, but it was way more deadly.

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

A video game portrays the Wild West’s famous detective agency as violent enforcers of order. But the modern-day company disagrees.

Historians used the Twitter thread to add context and accuracy to the news cycle in 2018. Here’s how they did it.

A new book shows the remarkable contrast between 19th-century women’s views of miscarriage and the loss-focused rhetoric of today.

Memorials of World War I should focus on the truth—that it was bloody and pointless.

The concertina wire Trump loves at the border has a long, troubling legacy in the West.

This is even trickier now that the language of critical thinking has been appropriated by the alt-right.

Because that moment isn’t quite what we remember.

Today, 1 in 3 American babies are delivered via the procedure, twice what the World Health Organization recommends.

The effort to dig up information about the immigrant ancestors of prominent Trumpsters is doing more harm than good.

His condemnation of enslaved people’s failure to rebel is drawn from a dangerous ideology that’s older than the United States.

This bad old tradition isn’t quite dead.

How “pickles and ice cream” became the iconic “crazy” snack for pregnant women.

History suggests otherwise.