Slate History
A feed with the best history coverage from Slate’s wide range of podcasts. From narrative shows like Slow Burn, One Year, and Decoder Ring, to timely analysis from ICYMI and What Next, you’ll get the fascinating stories and vital context you need to understand where we came from and where we're going.
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Hit Parade | The Bridge: Slate’s Music Club 2025
Our critics’ roundtable recaps how Bad Bunny became imperial, Geese took flight and a trio of Demon Hunters made K-pop golden.
40 min
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Hit Parade | Hooked to the Silver Screen Editio...
A century of hit soundtracks—after Barbie, Wicked and KPop Demon Hunters, is movie music making a chart comeback?
52 min
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Hang Up | 2025: The Year in Sports
We look back at the biggest sports stories from each month of the past year.
71 min
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A Postlude for 'When We All Get to Heaven'
Reflecting on a series coming to a close and an epidemic still unfolding.
29 min
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Hit Parade | Hooked to the Silver Screen Editio...
A century of hit soundtracks—after Barbie, Wicked and KPop Demon Hunters, is movie music making a chart comeback?
66 min
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10: AIDS Isn’t Over | When We All Get to Heaven
We remember, along with the people of MCC San Francisco. Because AIDS still isn’t over.
50 min
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9: AIDS Energy | When We All Get to Heaven
Treatment Changes Everything. Church Included.
50 min
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What Next | What Kids Aren't Learning About US ...
Books like his are being banned from classrooms—so that’s where his book tour went.
28 min
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8: Conversion | When We All Get to Heaven
“We just kept trying to find meaning, meaning, meaning.”
57 min
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Death, Sex & Money | “The Lord Is My Shepherd a...
In the 1960s, the Metropolitan Community Church was one of the first gay-positive churches. When AIDS hit, it became a refuge.
51 min
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7: Dress Rehearsals | When We All Get to Heaven
A church romance blossoms between a hula dancer and a lumbersexual.
46 min
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Interlude: Tired of Dying | When We All Get to ...
Ten years into the AIDS crisis, the country starts to notice. A little bit.
30 min
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Hit Parade | Pour Some Sugar on Me Edition Part 1
Mutt Lange built the sound of arena rock—then ruled the charts for decades.
59 min
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6: Attacked | When We All Get to Heaven
When a lesbian minister is physically assaulted, the church is galvanized. And when they find out who did it, there are even fewer answers.
61 min
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5: Healing Without a Cure | When We All Get to ...
A minister with AIDS grapples with what “healing” means in the face of certain death.
54 min
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Hit Parade | If You Love Sting, Set Him Free Ed...
From the schoolroom to sophisti-pop, Sting’s genre-bending career is packed with hits.
51 min
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4: Friends in the Fire | When We All Get to Heaven
“To know us is to love us.”
48 min
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3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to He...
The gay church becomes the church with AIDS.
44 min
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Hit Parade | If You Love Sting, Set Him Free Ed...
From the schoolroom to sophisti-pop, Sting’s genre-bending career is packed with hits.
63 min
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2: A New Gospel for Gay Sinners | When We All G...
A Pentecostal preacher starts a gay church in his living room. A navy veteran starts one in a gay bar. And a lesbian athlete finds one when she needs one.
56 min
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Outward | Making ‘When We All Get to Heaven’
Bryan and Christina sit down with Lynne Gerber, to discuss the new limited series about how queer churches responded to the AIDS crisis.
29 min
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1: Setting The Table | When We All Get to Heaven
A queer church tries to remember all they lost to AIDS. We do too.
26 min
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Hit Parade | Toppermost of the Poppermost Editi...
The odd alchemy that sends a brand-new song to the top of the charts.
51 min
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Gabfest Reads | The Recent Past of Prison Punis...
21 min
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Hit Parade | Toppermost of the Poppermost Editi...
The odd alchemy that sends a brand-new song to the top of the charts.
51 min