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 | 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
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Amicus | How To Fix Our Broken Constitution
Historian Jill Lepore explains how the power to change the law through constitutional amendments was always intended to keep Americans from killing each other.
52 min
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Hit Parade | The White and Nerdy Edition Part 2
Novelty songs were a tough way to make a music career. Until one self-proclaimed Weird guy turned parodies into pop classics.
43 min
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Gabfest Reads | The Four Years That Changed New...
37 min
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Hit Parade | The White and Nerdy Edition Part 1
Novelty songs were a tough way to make a music career. Until one self-proclaimed Weird guy turned parodies into pop classics.
46 min
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Decoder Ring | How to Hunt a Mammoth, and Other...
Experimental archaeology is solving ancient mysteries that digging into dirt never could.
52 min
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What Next | Gutting Our National Parks
25 min
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Outward | From Hit Parade: The Hidden History o...
57 min
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Hit Parade | Here’s the Beef Edition Part 1
The Kendrick-Drake feud made it all the way to the Super Bowl, but pop star beefs go back to the earliest days of wax.
54 min
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Outward | Archiving the Spirit of Ballroom with...
Michael Roberson traces the spiritual, political, and public health roots of the ballroom scene
38 min
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What Next | Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave...
The lessons and warnings from a law that failed to avert the Civil War.
20 min
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Hit Parade | Mighty Real Edition Part 2
From Little Richard to Chappell Roan, queer artists have always been vanguards of pop, even when they have not been out.
59 min
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Hit Parade | Mighty Real Edition Part 1
From Little Richard to Chappell Roan, queer artists have always been vanguards of pop, even when they have not been out.
56 min
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Hit Parade | All Apologies Edition Part 2
Nirvana and grunge pulled alternative rock from the left of the dial to the center of the charts.
57 min
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ICYMI: Pope Leo XIV is the Taylor Swift of Cath...
32 min
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Hit Parade | All Apologies Edition Part 1
Nirvana and grunge pulled alternative rock from the left of the dial to the center of the charts.
62 min