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Avg. Duration 44m
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Apple Rating 3.8 (434)
Since Feb 2020
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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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.

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Hit Parade | The Bridge: Slate’s Music Club 2025

Dec 26, 2025 40m

The Slate Music Club returns, in this special year-end edition of Hit Parade’s The Bridge! Host Chris Molanphy joins New York Times pop music critic Lindsay Zoladz, and Julianne Escobedo Shepherd of…

Hit Parade | Hooked to the Silver Screen Edition Part 2

Dec 26, 2025 56m

If you need confirmation of Hollywood’s vast influence on mass culture, look no further than the pop charts. From the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs through this year’s KPop Demon…

Hang Up | 2025: The Year in Sports

Dec 23, 2025 1h 14m

Hosts Alex Kirshner, Lindsay Gibbs, and Ben Lindbergh look back on 2025, picking their top sports stories from each month—from the Luka trade and torpedo bats to a Trumpy Ryder Cup and OKC’s…

A Postlude for 'When We All Get to Heaven'

Dec 17, 2025 31m

As When We All Get to Heaven wraps up, Christina sits down with series host Lynne Gerber and producer Siri Colum. They discuss how the church has changed, the value of fleeting queer spaces, and what…

Hit Parade | Hooked to the Silver Screen Edition Part 1

Dec 12, 2025 1h 9m

If you need confirmation of Hollywood’s vast influence on mass culture, look no further than the pop charts. From the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs through this year’s KPop Demon…

10: AIDS Isn’t Over | When We All Get to Heaven

Dec 10, 2025 52m

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 AIDS in the late ‘90s and the fall of 2025, when…

9: AIDS Energy | When We All Get to Heaven

Dec 03, 2025 53m

In 1996 everything changed. With the introduction of antiretroviral medications called the “AIDS cocktail,” people started getting better – some dramatically – and surviving AIDS became a real…

What Next | What Kids Aren't Learning About US History

Dec 01, 2025 32m

Conservatives have long complained that teaching American history with slavery and genocide and systemic oppression is just too negative, and the Trump administration has gone as far as attacking the…

8: Conversion | When We All Get to Heaven

Nov 26, 2025 1h

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, how you got it, and how you could prevent it. And…

Death, Sex & Money | “The Lord Is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay”

Nov 25, 2025 55m

When the Metropolitan Community Church was founded in the late sixties, it was one of the first gay positive churches in America. When AIDS hit, it became a refuge for people who were sick and those…

7: Dress Rehearsals | When We All Get to Heaven

Nov 19, 2025 49m

Scott and Bruce were the hottest couple in church. Scott, a hula dancer, seemed destined for Bruce, the hunky “lumbersexual,” and the church delighted when they got together. Their brief love affair…

Interlude: Tired of Dying | When We All Get to Heaven

Nov 16, 2025 30m

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 interlude, a pause, and an immersion into one moment in…

Hit Parade | Pour Some Sugar on Me Edition Part 1

Nov 15, 2025 1h 3m

When you hear the term “superproducer,” names like George Martin, Quincy Jones, Max Martin, Pharrell Williams or Missy Elliott might come to mind. But … Robert “Mutt” Lange? Probably not. Yet Lange…

6: Attacked | When We All Get to Heaven

Nov 12, 2025 1h 3m

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, in the midst of a campaign to legally establish…

5: Healing Without a Cure | When We All Get to Heaven

Nov 05, 2025 56m

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 and broken family relationships and he preached…

Hit Parade | If You Love Sting, Set Him Free Edition Part 2

Oct 31, 2025 55m

Walk into any store or flip on a radio, and you’ll probably hear the Police’s “Every Breath You Take” sooner or later. Thanks to that ubiquity, the swooning, menacing megahit’s songwriter—Sting—is a…

4: Friends in the Fire | When We All Get to Heaven

Oct 29, 2025 50m

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 that friendship help other churches shift their…

3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to Heaven

Oct 22, 2025 46m

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/lesbian church came to call itself “a church…

Hit Parade | If You Love Sting, Set Him Free Edition Part 1

Oct 18, 2025 1h 7m

Walk into any store or flip on a radio, and you’ll probably hear the Police’s “Every Breath You Take” sooner or later. Thanks to that ubiquity, the swooning, menacing megahit’s songwriter—Sting—is a…

2: A New Gospel for Gay Sinners | When We All Get to Heaven

Oct 15, 2025 58m

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 1960s, and ‘70s, the separation between God and gays…

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