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Podcast: Slate History
Episode: One Year: 1955 Trailer
Description: Coming Thursday, August 31st, the fifth season of One Year covers 1955. A year when a team of 12-year-olds tried to integrate Little League, âweather girlsâ took the country by storm, and a conspiracy theory about Communist brainwashing infected the nationâs politics.One Year is history like youâve never heard it before. In each season, host Josh Levin brings you the weirdest, wildest, and most captivating moments from a single year in American history. Youâll hear stories you may have forgotten and ones you wonât believe you didnât know, all told by the people who liv...