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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Decoder Ring: Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes
Why did America’s favorite artist hide 240 pieces of artwork from his wife?
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A Word: Love, Family, and Freedom’s Ultimate Price
An assassin ended Medgar Evers’ life. His widow Myrlie Evers-Williams still nurtures his dream.
25 min
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Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 1
A smash remake of Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has reminded us of the power of cover songs. But why are hit covers so rare today?
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A Word: Black Country Renaissance
After Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” tops charts, the spotlight shines on Black women in country music.
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Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Avery Trufelman and Melissa Rivers on what the fashion police hath wrought.
38 min
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Hear Me Out: The House Should Elect The President
Not we the people… at least, not directly.
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Decoder Ring: The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Thirty years ago, OK Soda arrived in select stores and offered up a fizzy irony.
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Well, Now: Ending Racism in Healthcare
In her new book Legacy, Dr. Uché Blackstock honors her late mother while also tracing the history of racism in U.S. healthcare.
27 min
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Hear Me Out: Un-Cancel Woodrow Wilson
It’s time to reassess what a great president looks like.
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Hear Me Out: The Constitution Can’t Save Us
And we should stop pretending like it can.
34 min
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A Word: True Crime in Black and White
What a decades-old murder and hoax tells us about race and policing today.
22 min
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What Next: How Trump Gets Kicked off the Ballot
The Constitution pretty clearly states he should be booted. Will the Supreme Court agree?
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What Next: Are Two States Still the Solution?
Both sides seem to agree on at least one point: the status quo is untenable.
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Hear Me Out: Feminism Is Dying (But It Can Be S...
When we say all women, we need to mean it.
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What Next TBD: The Great British Library Hack
How a cultural institution became the target of a ransomware attack.
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A Word: Send In the Clowns?
Black Republicans, white supremacy, and the politics of grift.
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Outward: The Outing of Bubba Copeland
The story of how an Alabama mayor’s outing became national news
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A Word: A Black Power Radical’s Rise and Fall
Did a civil rights rebel become a murderer, or a scapegoat?
24 min
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One Year: 1990 - The Angry Death of Kimberly Be...
A young woman claimed she got HIV from her dentist. Was she right?
52 min
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Hear Me Out: The Holidays Are Tacky. Embrace It
Stop trying to class it up.
34 min
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One Year: 1990 - Art on Trial
Inside the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition that sparked a First Amendment showdown in Cincinnati.
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Hear Me Out: Race Isn’t Real. The Census Should...
Checking a box is oversimplifying.
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One Year: 1990 - Bush vs. Broccoli
When the president declared war on a vegetable, the country lost its mind.
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Hear Me Out: The Oppressed Still Have Moral Duties
Fighting fire with fire has its limits.
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One Year: 1990 - Mandrake the Magician
How a single dad with a secret identity took on Big Tobacco.
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