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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S7 Ep. 5: Creating a Winning Show
The team behind Slow Burn: Roe v. Wade reveals how they made Apple Podcasts' Show of the Year.
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Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine
How a PBS pledge drive turned Yanni and John Tesh into rock stars.
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One Year: 1942 - The Black-Japanese Axis
A shadowy organization, a mysterious leader, and an alleged conspiracy against America during World War II.
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Decoder Ring: The Butt and the Bustle
It may be old-fashioned, but the bustle still has a lot to tell us about race, sex and power.
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Political Gabfest Reads: Rethinking J. Edgar Ho...
Beverly Gage talks about writing the first major J. Edgar Hoover biography in over a quarter century.
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One Year: 1942 - When Internment Came to Alaska
The U.S. military claimed it was protecting indigenous Alaskans during World War II. The real story is much darker.
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Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
An unassuming photo of a party dress showed how seeing is believing.
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One Year - 1942: The Info Wars of World War II
How the Nazis used radio propaganda as a weapon against the United States.
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One Year: 1942 - The Day the Music Stopped
How a 1942 recording ban changed America forever.
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A Word: Jim Crow’s Killers
By Hands Now Known: Resurrecting stories of segregation’s brutality.
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One Year: 1942 - The Year Everyone Got Married
In 1942, matrimony was a national obsession. How would those weddings change America?
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Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime...
Did a trench-coat wearing dog’s catchy anti-drug anthems actually work?
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Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime...
The unlikely origins of the trench-coat wearing bloodhound who tackled personal safety, guns and drugs.
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One Year: 1942 - The Most Hated Man in America
In 1942, it was up to Leon Henderson to stop inflation. He became a nationwide villain.
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One Year - 1986: The Man From Fifth Avenue
The stranger-than-fiction story of a mysterious American who starred in a Soviet propaganda film.
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One Year - 1986: The Miracle of Cokeville
How the worst school attack in U.S. history was narrowly averted.
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One Year - 1986: Herschel vs. the Blubber Busters
How a cute story about a hungry sea lion became a fight over targeted animal killing.
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One Year - 1986: A Boycott in Mississippi
The civil rights battle that divided a small Southern town, and captivated the nation.
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9: How Did American Slavery End?
The long process of emancipation.
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8: Runaway Railroad
Our sometimes mythical memory of the Underground Railroad, and why the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 propelled the country toward war.
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7: To Do No Harm?
What modern medicine gained from slavery, and how slaveholders sought to legitimize their ideology through science.
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6: When Cotton Became King
The rise of the 19th-century cotton economy brings about a powerful and frightening turn for the worse.
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5: What Happened When Slaves Rebelled
How the frontier was really settled, and the volatile conditions that ripened it for rebellion.
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4: The Family Life of Enslaved People
What happened when Thomas Jefferson and other slaveholders tore apart the families they owned.
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3: The Hypocrisy of America’s Revolution
Slavery during the Revolutionary War and Elizabeth Freeman’s groundbreaking “freedom suit.”
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