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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 goin...
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10: AIDS Isn’t Over | When We All Get to Heaven
In the final episode of When We All Get to Heaven, we catch up on what’s happened in the many years between the emergence of effective treatment for A...
9: AIDS Energy | When We All Get to Heaven
In 1996 everything changed. With the introduction of antiretroviral medications called the “AIDS cocktail,” people started getting better – some drama...
What Next | What Kids Aren't Learning About US History
Conservatives have long complained that teaching American history with slavery and genocide and systemic oppression is just too negative, and the Trum...
8: Conversion | When We All Get to Heaven
In 1995 Rev. Jim Mitulski became HIV positive -- what's known as seroconversion. It was 14 years into the epidemic and people knew what HIV/AIDS was,...
7: Dress Rehearsals | When We All Get to Heaven
Scott and Bruce were the hottest couple in church. Scott, a hula dancer, seemed destined for Bruce, the hunky “lumbersexual,” and the church delighted...
Interlude: Tired of Dying | When We All Get to Heaven
The Sunday after Magic Johnson announced his HIV-status, Jim Mitulski preached a sermon on being tired of people dying. We’re sharing it as an interlu...
6: Attacked | When We All Get to Heaven
San Francisco’s gay/lesbian community in the 1980s wasn’t just facing an AIDS crisis, they also struggled against ongoing anti-gay violence. In 1989,...
5: Healing Without a Cure | When We All Get to Heaven
When Rev. Ron Russell Coons got diagnosed with AIDS he thought a lot about what healing meant when death was certain. He pursued it in his strained an...
4: Friends in the Fire | When We All Get to Heaven
As MCC grew as a denomination, they tried to figure out if and how to relate to other churches. Would any befriend a queer church? And if so, would th...
3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to Heaven
In the late ‘80s, two MCC San Francisco ministers wrote an article called “We Are the Church Alive, the Church with AIDS.” We wanted to know how a gay...
2: A New Gospel for Gay Sinners | When We All Get to Heaven
Why would an out queer person in the Gay Liberation Days of the 1970s go to church? What church would they go to? And why would they stay? In the 1960...
Outward | Making ‘When We All Get to Heaven’
As Outward proudly presents the 10-episode series When We All Get to Heaven, from Eureka Street Productions, Christina and Bryan had the privilege of...
1: Setting The Table | When We All Get to Heaven
In 1993, more than 10 years into the AIDS epidemic, the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco (MCC-SF) tries to remember all they’ve lost. We...
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...