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Years in Review
Years in Review
Writers looking back at their work in 2016.
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In February of 2015 I wrote a post about my move from blogger to blogger/columnist at Slate. I had been running The Vault, Slate’s documents blog, for a few years, while transitioning out of academia. I’d also been pitching and writing stories loosely about history, for Slate and other…


2015: You were okay. 2016: More fun. Less nonsense.

I write a (very irregular) newsletter for my mom. I also let anybody else who wants to subscribe do so. This was the newsletter I wrote for her about my year. I figured it might be interesting to those who don’t subscribe, too. So here it