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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. 

Episode Date
Hear Me Out: Third Parties Are Saving Democracy
Apr 23, 2024
John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Remembering George and Defending the Morning
Apr 21, 2024
Political Gabfest Reads: Can America Survive Its Relationships with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin?
Apr 20, 2024
Well, Now: We Don’t Need to Cure Autism
Apr 17, 2024
Outward: A History of the Gay Right with Neil J. Young
Apr 17, 2024
John Dickerson’s Navel Gazing: Sending our Son to College
Apr 13, 2024
Hit Parade: We Want It That Way Edition Part 1
Apr 13, 2024
Decoder Ring: Can the “Bookazine” Save Magazines?
Apr 10, 2024
Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 2
Mar 29, 2024
Decoder Ring: Andrew Wyeth's Secret Nudes
Mar 27, 2024
A Word: Love, Family, and Freedom’s Ultimate Price
Mar 22, 2024
Hit Parade: Gotcha Covered Edition Part 1
Mar 16, 2024
A Word: Black Country Renaissance
Mar 15, 2024
Decoder Ring: Why Stylists Rule the Red Carpet
Mar 13, 2024
Hear Me Out: The House Should Elect The President
Mar 05, 2024
Decoder Ring: The Gen X Soda That Was Just "OK"
Feb 28, 2024
Well, Now: Ending Racism in Healthcare
Feb 28, 2024
Hear Me Out: Un-Cancel Woodrow Wilson
Feb 20, 2024
Hear Me Out: The Constitution Can’t Save Us
Feb 13, 2024
A Word: True Crime in Black and White
Feb 09, 2024
What Next: How Trump Gets Kicked off the Ballot
Feb 08, 2024
What Next: Are Two States Still the Solution?
Jan 29, 2024
Hear Me Out: Feminism Is Dying (But It Can Be Saved)
Jan 23, 2024
A Word: Send In the Clowns?
Jan 19, 2024
What Next TBD: The Great British Library Hack
Jan 19, 2024
Outward: The Outing of Bubba Copeland
Jan 17, 2024
A Word: A Black Power Radical’s Rise and Fall
Dec 22, 2023
One Year: 1990 - The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis
Dec 21, 2023
Hear Me Out: The Holidays Are Tacky. Embrace It
Dec 19, 2023
One Year: 1990 - Art on Trial
Dec 14, 2023
Hear Me Out: Race Isn’t Real. The Census Should Reflect That.
Dec 12, 2023
One Year: 1990 - Bush vs. Broccoli
Dec 07, 2023
Hear Me Out: The Oppressed Still Have Moral Duties
Dec 05, 2023
One Year: 1990 - Mandrake the Magician
Nov 30, 2023
One Year: 1990 - Pizzastroika
Nov 22, 2023
What Next: Moms for Liberty Tanked at the Polls. This Guy Called It.
Nov 20, 2023
A Word: Rebirth of a Nation
Nov 17, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Forgotten Video Game About Slavery
Nov 15, 2023
Hear Me Out: It’s Time To Sunset Social Security
Nov 14, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Dating Manual Unlike Any Other
Nov 08, 2023
What Next: Can Hamas Actually Be Destroyed?
Nov 02, 2023
Decoder Ring: Mailbag - The Recorder, Limos, and “Baby on Board” Signs
Nov 01, 2023
Decoder Ring: When Art Pranksters Invaded Melrose Place
Oct 25, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Fast Decline of the Slow Dance
Oct 18, 2023
Hear Me Out: Teaching Civics Can’t Save Democracy
Oct 17, 2023
Hear Me Out: Columbus Day Is Worth Celebrating
Oct 10, 2023
One Year: 1955 - The Hiroshima Maidens
Oct 06, 2023
A Word: Black Grief, White Grievance
Oct 06, 2023
What Next: Can Marriage Fix America?
Sep 28, 2023
One Year: 1955 - The Cutter Incident
Sep 28, 2023
The Waves: The Afghan Women Left Behind - Gender And U.S. Immigration
Sep 28, 2023
What Next: Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?
Sep 27, 2023
Gabfest Reads: Zadie Smith Knows You're a Fraud
Sep 23, 2023
A Word: School of Destruction
Sep 22, 2023
One Year: 1955 - Siberia, USA
Sep 21, 2023
Hear Me Out: Bring Back The Draft
Sep 19, 2023
A Word: Wrong from the Beginning
Sep 15, 2023
One Year: 1955 - The Weather Girls
Sep 14, 2023
One Year: 1955 - The Crockett Craze
Sep 07, 2023
Hear Me Out: Overconfidence Is Killing The Supreme Court
Sep 05, 2023
One Year: 1955 - The Team Nobody Would Play
Aug 31, 2023
Amicus - Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
Aug 26, 2023
One Year: 1955 Trailer
Aug 21, 2023
Decoder Ring: Think Catchphrases Are Dead? Eat My Shorts.
Aug 09, 2023
Hear Me Out: Affirmative Action Failed Poor Black Kids
Aug 08, 2023
What Next: Florida Public Schools' New Anti-Woke Partner
Aug 07, 2023
What Next: It’s Hot as Hell. Why Are Pools Closed?
Aug 03, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Quest for a Homemade Hovercraft
Aug 02, 2023
Decoder Ring: A Brief History of Making Out
Jul 26, 2023
Political Gabfest Reads: How the British Empire Twisted the Truth
Jul 22, 2023
A Word: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied?
Jul 21, 2023
The Waves: Why Barbie Lives On
Jul 20, 2023
Decoder Ring: What's Really Going On Inside a Mosh Pit?
Jul 19, 2023
Slow Burn: Season 8 Live Announcement & Bonus Conversation
Jul 15, 2023
A Word: Black Dolls Matter
Jul 14, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Great Parmesan Cheese Debate
Jul 12, 2023
Hear Me Out: Insurrection Is A Force For Good
Jul 04, 2023
Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas - Ep. 4: A National Disgrace
Jun 21, 2023
Hear Me Out: Descendants Of Slaves Don’t Need Reparations
Jun 20, 2023
How To!: Find the Gems in All Your Junk
Jun 20, 2023
Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas - Ep. 3: I’m Their Guy
Jun 14, 2023
Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas - Ep. 2: Smiling Faces
Jun 07, 2023
A Word: My Father, the Spy
Jun 02, 2023
Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas - Ep. 1: America’s Blackest Child
May 31, 2023
Hear Me Out: “Thank You For Your Service” Feels Cheap
May 30, 2023
A Word: Reckoning on Campus
May 26, 2023
Hear Me Out: Policing Can’t Be Reformed And Must Be Abolished
May 23, 2023
A Word: The Ballot, the Bullet, and the Truth
May 19, 2023
A Word: Dungeons, Dragons, and Diversity
May 12, 2023
Decoder Ring: Who Owns the Tooth Fairy?
May 10, 2023
A Word: Becoming “The Black Mozart”
May 05, 2023
What Next: Charles In Charge
May 04, 2023
What Next: America’s Rich History of Gun Control
May 03, 2023
Decoder Ring: Why You Can’t Find a Damn Parking Spot
May 03, 2023
Hear Me Out: The Iraq War Was a Necessary Evil
May 02, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Artist Who Was Both Loved and Disdained
Apr 26, 2023
Political Gabfest Reads: The Art of Writing Political Satire
Apr 22, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 2
Apr 19, 2023
Hi-Phi Nation: Living in a Zoopolis
Apr 18, 2023
What Next: He Couldn’t Teach ‘Slavery Was Wrong.’ So He Quit.
Apr 17, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Curious Case of Columbo's Message to Romania Part 1
Apr 12, 2023
A Word: The Battle for Eatonville
Apr 07, 2023
Hear Me Out: Secession Could Be A Good Thing
Mar 28, 2023
A Word: When a Race War Threat Was Real
Mar 24, 2023
What Next: A Disability Rights Icon’s Long Legacy
Mar 13, 2023
What Next: Does Steven Spielberg Have an Oscars Curse?
Mar 09, 2023
The Waves: What Ballet’s Best Choreographer Destroyed
Feb 23, 2023
The Waves: The Inherent Fear in Being a Woman
Feb 16, 2023
A Word: Surviving “Driving While Black”
Feb 10, 2023
What Next: How Florida’s School Censorship Spreads
Feb 09, 2023
ICYMI: American Girl’s Addy Is More Than a Slave
Jan 25, 2023
Political Gabfest Reads: Two Horrifying Days in D.C.
Jan 21, 2023
A Word: Haiti: Fear of a Black Republic
Jan 20, 2023
Decoder Ring: The Mailbag Episode
Dec 27, 2022
Outward: How Can Queer People Keep Each Other Safe?
Dec 21, 2022
Decoder Ring: Encore: ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Got It Wrong
Dec 20, 2022
Political Gabfest Reads: Everything You Need to Know About Choosing a President
Dec 17, 2022
Decoder Ring: Cellino & Barnes, Injury Attorneys, 800-888-8888
Dec 13, 2022
Decoder Ring: How Preppy Became Streetwear
Dec 06, 2022
S7 Ep. 5: Creating a Winning Show
Nov 29, 2022
Decoder Ring: The New Age Hit Machine
Nov 29, 2022
One Year: 1942 - The Black-Japanese Axis
Nov 23, 2022
Decoder Ring: The Butt and the Bustle
Nov 22, 2022
Political Gabfest Reads: Rethinking J. Edgar Hoover
Nov 19, 2022
One Year: 1942 - When Internment Came to Alaska
Nov 17, 2022
Decoder Ring: The Truth About #TheDress
Nov 15, 2022
One Year - 1942: The Info Wars of World War II
Nov 10, 2022
One Year: 1942 - The Day the Music Stopped
Nov 03, 2022
A Word: Jim Crow’s Killers
Oct 28, 2022
One Year: 1942 - The Year Everyone Got Married
Oct 27, 2022
Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 2
Oct 23, 2022
Decoder Ring: McGruff Takes a Bite Out of Crime Pt. 1
Oct 22, 2022
One Year: 1942 - The Most Hated Man in America
Oct 20, 2022
One Year - 1986: The Man From Fifth Avenue
Oct 13, 2022
One Year - 1986: The Miracle of Cokeville
Oct 11, 2022
One Year - 1986: Herschel vs. the Blubber Busters
Oct 09, 2022
One Year - 1986: A Boycott in Mississippi
Oct 08, 2022
9: How Did American Slavery End?
Feb 01, 2020
8: Runaway Railroad
Feb 01, 2020
7: To Do No Harm?
Feb 01, 2020
6: When Cotton Became King
Feb 01, 2020
5: What Happened When Slaves Rebelled
Feb 01, 2020
4: The Family Life of Enslaved People
Feb 01, 2020
3: The Hypocrisy of America’s Revolution
Feb 01, 2020
2: Inside the Slave Ship
Feb 01, 2020
1: The Terrible Transformation
Feb 01, 2020