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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hit Parade: I Wanna Rock with Q. Edition Part 2

55 mins; June 28, 2024

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep 6: The Murders at City Hall

56 mins; June 26, 2024

Outward: A History of Lesbian Fashion with Eleanor Medhurst

35 mins; June 26, 2024

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 5: Strange Bedfellows

55 mins; June 19, 2024

Hit Parade: I Wanna Rock with Q. Edition Part 1

50 mins; June 14, 2024

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 4: You Must Come Out

57 mins; June 12, 2024

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 3: Harvey Milk vs. the Machine

57 mins; June 05, 2024

Hang Up: The WNBA’s Caitlin Clark Drama

75 hours 3 mins; June 03, 2024

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Meaning Behind All This Navel Gazing

38 mins; June 01, 2024

Hit Parade: Be My Baby-Baby-Baby Edition Part 2

52 mins; May 31, 2024

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 2: Defend Our Children

53 mins; May 29, 2024

Outward: The Trans History of the 1936 Olympics with Michael Waters

34 mins; May 29, 2024

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Time Travel Via an Assortment of Journal Entries

29 mins; May 25, 2024

Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 1: A Hotbed of Homosexuality

50 mins; May 22, 2024

Outward: Behind the Scenes of ‘Gays Against Briggs’ with Christina Cauterucci

41 mins; May 22, 2024

Colonialism Never Ended

39 mins; May 21, 2024

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Moving in New York Twenty Years After September 11th.

43 mins; May 18, 2024

Gabfest Reads: Why Americans Care About Animals

33 mins; May 18, 2024

Hit Paade: Be My Baby-Baby-Baby Edition Part 1

63 hours 22 mins; May 17, 2024

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Sneaky Pitfalls of the To-Do List

38 mins; May 11, 2024

Amicus: How Originalism Ate The Law: The Trap

52 mins; May 11, 2024

A Word: Between the World and Us

45 mins; May 10, 2024

Bryan talks to the creator of Queering the Map, a digital archive of queer stories from around the globe

27 mins; May 08, 2024

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Remembering Early 1990s New York

41 mins; May 04, 2024

Amicus: How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick

47 mins; May 04, 2024

Outward: Mary & George's LGBTQ Historical Drama

41 mins; May 01, 2024

Student Protests Can Backfire (Badly)

44 mins; April 30, 2024

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Power of Four Numbers

33 mins; April 27, 2024

Hit Parade: We Want It That Way Edition Part 2

62 hours 50 mins; April 26, 2024

Third Parties Are Saving Democracy

35 mins; April 23, 2024

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Remembering George and Defending the Morning

27 mins; April 21, 2024

Political Gabfest Reads: Can America Survive Its Relationships with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?

41 mins; April 20, 2024

Outward: A History of the Gay Right with Neil J. Young

34 mins; April 17, 2024

Well, Now: We Don’t Need to Cure Autism

40 mins; April 17, 2024

John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Sending our Son to College

28 mins; April 13, 2024

Hit Parade: We Want It That Way Edition Part 1

64 hours 2 mins; April 12, 2024

Decoder Ring: Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?

37 mins; April 10, 2024

Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 2

46 mins; March 29, 2024

Decoder Ring: Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes

54 mins; March 27, 2024

A Word: Love, Family, and Freedom’s Ultimate Price

28 mins; March 22, 2024

Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 1

57 mins; March 15, 2024

A Word: Black Country Renaissance

40 mins; March 15, 2024

Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet

42 mins; March 13, 2024

The House Should Elect The President

44 mins; March 05, 2024

Decoder Ring: The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"

43 mins; February 28, 2024

Well, Now: Ending Racism in Healthcare

30 mins; February 28, 2024

Un-Cancel Woodrow Wilson

44 mins; February 20, 2024

The Constitution Can’t Save Us

37 mins; February 13, 2024

A Word: True Crime in Black and White

26 mins; February 09, 2024

What Next: How Trump Gets Kicked off the Ballot

22 mins; February 08, 2024

What Next: Are Two States Still the Solution?

30 mins; January 29, 2024

Feminism Is Dying (But It Can Be Saved)

35 mins; January 23, 2024

A Word: Send In the Clowns?

47 mins; January 19, 2024

What Next TBD: The Great British Library Hack

27 mins; January 19, 2024

Outward: The Outing of Bubba Copeland

34 mins; January 17, 2024

A Word: A Black Power Radical’s Rise and Fall

27 mins; December 22, 2023

One Year: 1990 - The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis

56 mins; December 21, 2023

The Holidays Are Tacky. Embrace It

37 mins; December 19, 2023

One Year: 1990 - Art on Trial

58 mins; December 14, 2023

Race Isn’t Real. The Census Should Reflect That.

42 mins; December 12, 2023

One Year: 1990 - Bush vs. Broccoli

40 mins; December 07, 2023

The Oppressed Still Have Moral Duties

33 mins; December 05, 2023

One Year: 1990 - Mandrake the Magician

50 mins; November 30, 2023

One Year: 1990 - Pizzastroika

57 mins; November 22, 2023

What Next: Moms for Liberty Tanked at the Polls. This Guy Called It.

23 mins; November 20, 2023

A Word: Rebirth of a Nation

35 mins; November 17, 2023

Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery

47 mins; November 15, 2023

Hear Me Out: It’s Time To Sunset Social Security

46 mins; November 14, 2023

Decoder Ring: The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other

37 mins; November 08, 2023

What Next: Can Hamas Actually Be Destroyed?

28 mins; November 02, 2023

Decoder Ring: Mailbag - The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs

40 mins; November 01, 2023

Decoder Ring: When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place

41 mins; October 25, 2023

Decoder Ring: The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance

45 mins; October 18, 2023

Hear Me Out: Teaching Civics Can’t Save Democracy

43 mins; October 17, 2023

Hear Me Out: Columbus Day Is Worth Celebrating

38 mins; October 10, 2023

One Year: 1955 - The Hiroshima Maidens

54 mins; October 06, 2023

A Word: Black Grief, White Grievance

27 mins; October 06, 2023

One Year: 1955 - The Cutter Incident

35 mins; September 28, 2023

What Next: Can Marriage Fix America?

24 mins; September 28, 2023

The Waves: The Afghan Women Left Behind - Gender And U.S. Immigration

48 mins; September 28, 2023

What Next: Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?

30 mins; September 27, 2023

Gabfest Reads: Zadie Smith Knows You're a Fraud

29 mins; September 23, 2023

A Word: School of Destruction

28 mins; September 22, 2023

One Year: 1955 - Siberia, USA

55 mins; September 21, 2023

Hear Me Out: Bring Back The Draft

36 mins; September 19, 2023

A Word: Wrong from the Beginning

34 mins; September 15, 2023

One Year: 1955 - The Weather Girls

45 mins; September 14, 2023

One Year: 1955 - The Crockett Craze

57 mins; September 07, 2023

Hear Me Out: Overconfidence Is Killing The Supreme Court

39 mins; September 05, 2023

One Year: 1955 - The Team Nobody Would Play

57 mins; August 31, 2023

Amicus - Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas

56 mins; August 26, 2023

One Year: 1955 Trailer

1 min; August 21, 2023

Decoder Ring: Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.

40 mins; August 09, 2023

Hear Me Out: Affirmative Action Failed Poor Black Kids

35 mins; August 08, 2023

What Next: Florida Public Schools' New Anti-Woke Partner

26 mins; August 07, 2023

What Next: It’s Hot as Hell. Why Are Pools Closed?

25 mins; August 03, 2023

Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft

42 mins; August 02, 2023

Decoder Ring: A Brief History of Making Out

36 mins; July 26, 2023

Political Gabfest Reads: How the British Empire Twisted the Truth

28 mins; July 22, 2023

A Word: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied?

28 mins; July 21, 2023

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