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Rebecca Onion

Rebecca Onion is a freelance writer in Austin, Texas.

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Photo portrait of Martin Scorsese

March/April
2013

Humanities Civil Rights Special Edition 2013 Cover

Special Edition
2013

Portrait of Alessandro de' Medici

January/February
2013

Oyster Bar, Grand Central Terminal, New York City

November/December
2012

Rain-god vessel

September/October
2012

Book buying along the Seine in 1940

July/August
2012

Wendell Berry photo portrait

May/June
2012

"Secret Kiss" illustration by Georges Barbier

March/April
2012

January/February
2012

molded plywood chair

November/December
2011

Dictionary of American Regional English

September/October
2011

Balinese bird mask

July/August
2011

Drew Gilpin Faust, 2011 Jefferson Lecturer

May/June
2011

Humanities Magazine March/April 2011 cover

March/April
2011

Unidentified Civil War soldier in a New York Zouave uniform.

January/February
2011

Black Swan Record label, 1921

November/December
2010

Humanities September/October 2010 Cover

September/October
2010

Freud vs. Kierkegaard

July/August
2010

Jonathan Spence, 2010 Jefferson Lecturer

May/June
2010

The Yankee Driver, Thomas Hart Benton

March/April
2010

Image of January/February 2010 Humanities cover

January/February
2010

Detail from the Kangxi Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three

November/December
2009

Humanities Magazine September/October 2009 cover

September/October
2009

Humanities Magazine July/August 2009 cover

July/August
2009

Leon Kass, the 38th Annual Jefferson Lecturer

May/June
2009

San Baudelio de Berlanga, circa 1000

March/April
2009

Cover of January/February 2009 Humanities

January/February
2009

Church of Odigitria

November/December
2008

Humanities Magazine September/October 2008 cover

September/October
2008

Humanities Magazine July/August 2008 cover

July/August
2008

Caricature of John Updike

May/June
2008

Gary Cooper fashion portrait

March/April
2008

Portrait of Richa Franks

January/February
2008

Fashion showroom in Miami in the 1950s

November/December
2007

Painting of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931

September/October
2007

Humanities Magazine July/August 2007 cover

July/August
2007

2007 Jefferson Lecturer, Harvey Mansfield

May/June
2007

Humanities Magazine March/April 2007 cover

March/April
2007

Recreation of Susan Constant, largest of three boats that landed at Jamestown

January/February
2007

Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly in the 1951 film An American in Paris

November/December
2006

Humanities Magazine September/October Cover

September/October
2006

Matrakçi Nasuh's 'Account of the Military Campaigns of Sultan Süleyman,' 1537-38

July/August
2006

Humanities Magazine May/June 2006 cover

May/June
2006

Humanities Magazine March/April 2006 cover

March/April
2006

Classics

A selection of old favorites

Supremely Contentious

The Transformation of “Advice and Consent”

By Meredith Hindley
Who Was Westbrook Pegler?

The original right-wing takedown artist

By David Witwer
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein

Was the den mother of modernism a fascist?

By Barbara Will
Friends of Rousseau

Some of the people he has influenced don't even realize it.

By Leo Damrosch
The Other Jefferson Davis

The U.S. Capitol, as we know it today, would never have existed without Jefferson Davis.

By Guy Gugliotta