Slate History
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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 goin...
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Amicus | How To Fix Our Broken Constitution
There is a “stuckness” to American political life right now, which has become a seemingly inexorable centrifuge of polarization, victimization and pow...
Gabfest Reads | The Four Years That Changed New York City Forever
Political Gabfest host Emily Bazelon talks with Jonathan Mahler about his new book, The Gods of New York. They discuss the unraveling of Mayor Ed Koch...
Decoder Ring | How to Hunt a Mammoth, and Other Experiments in Archaeology
Experimental archeology is, simply put, archeology that involves running experiments. Where traditional archaeologists may study, research, analyze, a...
What Next | Gutting Our National Parks
From the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate Bridge, and places in between like Yellowstone and the site of the Battle of Gettysburg, the National Pa...
Outward | From Hit Parade: The Hidden History of Queer Pop Icons
Outward is going on a little summer break, in the meantime we’re leaving you with a delightfully queer episode of Slate’s Hit Parade with Chris Molanp...
Outward | Archiving the Spirit of Ballroom with Michael Roberson
This week, Bryan is joined by theologian, activist, and ballroom historian Michael Roberson to discuss his new book, Ballroom: A History, A Movement,...
What Next | Is Trump Running the Fugitive Slave Act Playbook?
A federal force—often defying local governance—coming to take people away without due process has happened before. What lessons can be drawn from para...
ICYMI: Pope Leo XIV is the Taylor Swift of Catholicism
Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim are joined by Slate staff writer Molly Olmstead to talk all things Pope Leo XIV, who made the internet go wild following...
Outward | How The Gay Rights Movement Became Trans- Exclusionary
In this episode, Christina Cauterucci speaks with Zein Murib, Fordham professor and author of Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the...
Outward: Renaissance Trans Theologies and History with Colby Gordon
In this episode of Outward, Jules Gill-Peterson sits down with Colby Gordon to talk about his new book, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissanc...
Culture Gabfest: Meghan Markle Sprinkles Potpourri on You
On this week’s show, we throw a flower-sprinkled dinner party for a space clone (personal beehive not included).
Slate culture staff writer Nadi...
Outward | Slapping Leather: The Untamed History of the Gay Rodeo
This week on Outward, host Christina Cauterucci talks to historian Rebecca Scofield about the new book, Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rod...
Care & Feeding | Should We Skip Touring the White House?
On this episode: Elizabeth, Lucy and Zak answer a listener’s voicemail about planning a field trip to DC — and trying to avoid politics. The parents a...
Culture Gabfest: Noah Wyle Lures Us Into The Pitt
On this week’s show, the hosts discuss Max’s new medical drama The Pitt – a show that we legally can’t call an ER reboot but does have Noah Wyle donni...
Culture Gabfest: Babygirls and Nickel Boys
On this week’s show, Slate staff writer Nadira Goffe sits in for Stephen. First, the panel explores Babygirl and its kinks. The latest feature from Du...
Gabfest Reads: The Life and Legacy of John Lewis
Slate Political Gabfest host David Plotz talks with author David Greenberg about his new book, John Lewis: A Life. They discuss how Lewis went from ma...
Outward: How Lesbian Artists Turned Renaissance Ruins Into Queer Spaces with Kate Thomas
This week, Christina Cauterucci explores the intimate connections between queer identity and the natural world with Bryn Mawr professor Kate Thomas. I...
Outward: What Southern LGBTQ History Can Teach Us
In this episode, host Jules Gill-Peterson speaks with the co-founders of Invisible Histories about their groundbreaking work preserving the rich, ofte...
Culture Gabfest: Can Stolen Artifacts Return Time?
On this week’s show, Slate senior editor Rebecca Onion sits in for Julia Turner. First, the hosts examine Dahomey, an audacious new documentary by acc...
Outward: The Amicus Brief for U.S. v. Skrmetti with co-author Jules Gill Peterson
On December 4th, the Supreme Court will hear arguments for U.S. v. Skrmetti, a case that could decide the fate of gender-affirming care for trans peop...
Decoder Ring: Selling Out (Encore)
Whatever happened to selling out? The defining concern of Generation X has become a relic from another era. How that happened is best illustrated by o...
Well, Now: The Truth About IUDs
Modern IUDs have been used for decades to prevent unwanted pregnancy and have been extremely effective at doing so.
But they’re not without side...
Decoder Ring: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie… Will He Want a Welfare Check?
Adults have a long history of trying to find morals and lessons in children’s literature. But what happens when a seemingly innocent book about a boy...
A Word: The Dark Side of the Force
The New York Police Department is perhaps the most famous—or notorious—police force in America, depending on who you talk to. Some see it as a group o...
Hit Parade: Building a Herstory Edition Part 2
For decades—literally since Woodstock—female musicians had battled music-industry perceptions that amassing too many of them, on the radio or on the r...
ICYMI: The Internet History of Kamala Harris
Candice Lim is joined by Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe and former host of Vox’s The Weeds Jonquilyn Hill. Vice President Kamala Harris has been a...
Decoder Ring: Chuck E. Cheese Pizza War (Encore)
In the late 1970s, a new and unusual concept for a restaurant chain emerged in California—video games plus bad pizza plus animatronic characters. The...
Outward: Collecting LGBT+ History with Corey Serrant
This week, Jules sits down with Art Specialist Corey Serrant from Swann Auction Galleries to chat about pieces from their upcoming LGBTQ+ Art, Materia...
Hit Parade: Building a Herstory Edition Part 1
For decades—literally since Woodstock—female musicians had battled music-industry perceptions that amassing too many of them, on the radio or on the r...
Decoder Ring: The Secret Life of Lawn Ornaments
Lawn ornaments are everywhere—but for something so ubiquitous, they’re also mysterious. What’s the person with the flamingo or the gargoyle in their y...
What Next TBD: Why Are IUDs Still a Mystery?
The story of IUDs is a story of technology, reproductive rights, shortcomings in communication about women’s health, and politics.
Guest...
Hang Up: The WNBA’s Caitlin Clark Drama
Joel Anderson and Josh Levin are joined by Howard Megdal of the Next to discuss the tumultuous beginning to Caitlin Clark’s rookie season. Historian a...
John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: The Meaning Behind All This Navel Gazing
In this week’s essay, John discusses instinct versus obligation, his daughter’s wit, how he has changed since episode one, and more.
Not...
Hit Parade: Be My Baby-Baby-Baby Edition Part 2
Girl groups have long been underestimated—even by the producers and managers who created them.
For women listeners, girl groups narrated...
Outward: The Trans History of the 1936 Olympics with Michael Waters
This week, Bryan dives into the world of sports to talk about the often obscured queer history of the Olympics with writer Michael Waters. Michael’s n...
John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Time Travel Via an Assortment of Journal Entries
In this week’s essay, John discusses Mothers’s Day, playing tennis with the Attorney General, medical scares, and more
Notebook Entries:...
Outward: Behind the Scenes of ‘Gays Against Briggs’ with Christina Cauterucci
This week Christina Cauterucci returns to Outward to talk with Bryan about her experience making ‘Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs’ and diving into one...
Hear Me Out: Colonialism Never Ended
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out: don’t scare me like that, colonizer.
Understanding the legacy of colonialism is a project relatively f...
John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Moving in New York Twenty Years After September 11th.
In this week’s essay, John discusses the differences between moving around New York in 1991 and 2021; remembering 9/11 twenty years later; and more. <...
Gabfest Reads: Why Americans Care About Animals
Emily Bazelon talks with authors Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy, about their new book, Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do...