Today we will discuss writing cultural history in the pandemic with Rebecca Onion, staff writer at Slate.
Rebecca Onion writes about culture, history, and childhood for magazines, newspapers, and the Internet. She is currently a staff writer for Slate.com.
She has also written for Aeon Magazine, the Boston Globe’s Ideas section, the Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlantic‘s website, Topic Magazine, the Austin-American Statesman, PBS’ American Experience website, and others.
She holds a Ph.D and an MA in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BA in American Studies from Yale University. 
Her book, Innocent Experiments: Childhood and the Culture of Public Science in the United States, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2016.