Throughout history, tailors, dressmakers, quilters, and DIY-ers have been in one common position. Losing a pin or needle. Some are never to be seen again, most unfortunately, are found once it’s been ...

I do, and I wish I didn’t, at least most of the time. But, yeah, I used them, along with thousands of others who employed them for about 25 years, when snagging salmon was a legal activity on New York ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. During WWI and WWII, as one of ...