Long Shadow

By Long Lead & PRX

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Subscribers: 350
Reviews: 4
Episodes: 31


 May 25, 2023
A very thorough investigation of low points in our history.

GB
 Sep 14, 2021
Outstanding! However, it should do more on its webpage: most of the information is of general public knowledge still it would be helpful if it provided a bibliography or a list of sources available in the public domain.

cat
 Sep 12, 2021
thank you


 Aug 24, 2021

Description

Through a series of riveting, complex narratives, LONG SHADOW makes sense of what people know — and what they thought they knew — about the most pivotal moments in U.S. history, including Waco, Columbine, Y2K, 9/11, COVID-19, January 6, and beyond. Hosted by Pulitzer-finalist historian, author, and journalist Garrett Graff, this Peabody-nominated podcast has been called “rigorous, authoritative, and an electrifying listen” by the Financial Times and honored as one of the year's best podcasts by The Atlantic, Audible, Mashable, and The Week. A winner of the Edward R. Murrow Award and the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award, it has also been honored with five Signal Awards, including for Best History, Best Documentary, and Best Activism, Public Service, & Social Impact Podcast.The second season of LONG SHADOW has been added to the history program at the University of Houston and the third season has been integrated into Harvard Law School's curriculum on the Second Amendment.Season 4LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNETWhen was the last time you felt good about the internet? Today’s online landscape is a harrowing one. People screaming at each other on social media. Violent videos going viral. Cyberbullying, racism, misogyny. Back in the day, the web gave power to the people, and going online could actually be fun.LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET retraces 30 years of web history — a tangle of GIFs, blogs, apps, and hashtags — to answer the bewildering question many ask when they go online today: “How did we get here?”It’s the story of mankind’s greatest invention, a tool that gave everyone access to all the world’s information and unlocked democracy across the globe. But LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET is also about the biggest crisis facing society today: how the web's unlimited feed of data morphed into a firehose of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and lies that divided Americans over things we once agreed on, like science, diversity, and even democracy itself.Chronicling innovations, revolutions, cyber attacks, and meltdowns across seven episodes, this limited series podcast untangles the web in a way you’ve never considered before. Featuring memes and moments you know — like when the world became transfixed by the color of a dress — and others you don’t, but should — like how people sent death threats to the woman who posted that meme online — LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET both scales the heights of internet virality and plumbs the depths of social media's depravity.Within weeks of its launch in 2021, LONG SHADOW became a No. 1 history show on Apple Podcasts, and its first season, 9/11’s LINGERING QUESTIONS, won Best History Podcast at the inaugural Signal Awards. Its second season, RISE OF THE AMERICAN FAR RIGHT, was named Best Podcast at the 2024 Edward R. Murrow Awards. IN GUNS WE TRUST, the show’s third season produced in collaboration with The Trace, was nominated for a Peabody Award and awarded the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award for its coverage of America’s gun violence epidemic.LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET premiered June 24, 2025 and will release new episodes the following six Tuesdays, wherever you get your podcasts.LONG SHADOW is produced by the award-winning journalism studio Long Lead and distributed by PRX.For more visit www.longlead.com and www.longshadowpodcast.com.

Episode Date
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Jul 22, 2025
Enragement Equals Engagement
Jul 15, 2025
The Facebook Revolution
Jul 08, 2025
Establishing Connection
Jul 01, 2025
The End of the World as We Know It
Jun 24, 2025
Trailer: Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet
Jun 17, 2025
Generation Lockdown
May 22, 2024
A Good Guy with a Gun
May 14, 2024
The Right to Bear AR-15s
May 07, 2024
The Hardliners
Apr 23, 2024
Shall Not Be Infringed
Apr 16, 2024
A Uniquely American Problem
Apr 09, 2024
Trailer: Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust
Apr 02, 2024
January 6: Day of the Rope
May 24, 2023
MAGA: American Carnage
May 17, 2023
The Bundys: A Call to Arms
May 10, 2023
Info War: From the Fringe to Fox News
May 03, 2023
Oklahoma City: Sic Semper Tyrannis
Apr 26, 2023
Ruby Ridge: The Revolution Begins
Apr 19, 2023
Waco: The Spark
Apr 12, 2023
Trailer: Long Shadow: Rise of the American Far Right
Mar 29, 2023
Long Lead Presents: The Depths She'll Reach
Nov 18, 2021
How do we move on from 9/11?
Sep 11, 2021
What was the Saudi connection to 9/11?
Sep 10, 2021
Who was the 20th hijacker?
Sep 08, 2021
Could 9/11 have been stopped before it happened?
Sep 03, 2021
Was there a “fifth plane” on 9/11?
Sep 01, 2021
Who issued the order to shoot down Flight 93?
Aug 25, 2021
What was the target of United Airlines Flight 93?
Aug 20, 2021
Why weren’t more people rescued from the Twin Towers?
Aug 18, 2021
Trailer: Long Shadow: 9/11's Lingering Questions
Jul 21, 2021