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    Slate Presents: One Year

    Slate Presents: One Year

    Slate Presents: One Year

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    Length:
    66 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    The people and struggles that changed America—one year at a time. In each episode, host Josh Levin explores a story you may have forgotten, or one you’ve never heard of before. What were the moments that transformed politics, culture, science, religion, and more? And how does the nation’s past shape our present?
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 66 episodes

    Title

    1990: The Angry Death of Kimberly Bergalis

    Before 1990, there had never been a documented case of a patient getting HIV from a hea...

    56 minutes
    		Dec 21, 2023

    1990: Art on Trial

    Robert Mapplethorpe was one of the most famous photographers in the world—and one of th...

    58 minutes
    		Dec 14, 2023

    1990: Bush vs. Broccoli

    In March 1990, a story broke that shocked the nation: George H.W. Bush had banned brocc...

    40 minutes
    		Dec 07, 2023

    1990: Mandrake the Magician

    A middle-aged single dad in Chicago was outraged by all the cigarette billboards poppin...

    50 minutes
    		Nov 30, 2023

    1990: Pizzastroika

    Pizza Hut’s adventure in the Soviet Union was unlike any restaurant opening before or s...

    57 minutes
    		Nov 22, 2023

    1955: The Hiroshima Maidens

    Ten years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, 25 women who’d been disfigured by the ...

    54 minutes
    		Oct 06, 2023

    1955: The Cutter Incident

    Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine transformed America and the world in ways that seemed unimag...

    35 minutes
    		Sep 30, 2023

    1955: Siberia, USA

    When Alaskans wanted their own mental-health facility, a rumor took hold all over Ameri...

    55 minutes
    		Sep 21, 2023

    1955: The Weather Girls

    In the early days of television, women struggled to find their place. In 1955, they got...

    45 minutes
    		Sep 14, 2023

    1955: The Crockett Craze

    In 1955, the frontiersman Davy Crockett became the most famous man in America, more tha...

    57 minutes
    		Sep 07, 2023