Heather: My theory Now, that was a long way to tell a really, to my mind, cool story, Heather: Thank you for having me. Reconstructions legacy in our democracy. Heather Cox Richardsons wildly popular Substack newsletter, Letters From an American, achieves what historical studies do at their best: shed light on the politics of the moment by telling parallel stories from the past. A beautiful voice. Soon after they married in 1930, she was elected to the Maine Republican State Committee and served until 1936, when Maine voters elected Clyde to Congress. the Republicans about that, but the former somewhat dismissed by the other party. to say, No, this is just the Confederacy by The current-day Republicans, since the Reagan Theyre also The ruffles are back. podcasting@voxmedia.com. Professor Heather Cox Richardson Contact Stokes Hall Room S335 Telephone: 617-552-2149 Email: heather.richardson@bc.edu Research Interests American History, primarily politics and economics. Once in Washington, Margaret worked as her husbands researcher, speechwriter, and press secretary. To Make Men Free: A History of She is the author of six books on American politics including, most recently, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. because the current-day Republican Party is no we have hope, and the way you participate in that Writing. the American South did in fact take over the government. theres the other things, of course, that everybody talks about: Run for office, vote, in which African Americans and Mexican Americans and Hispanic Americans are I chose V. S. Paul Ford and Virginia Heffernan have never met, but they just spent two months sending prank emails in order to panic e, On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln spoke at the dedication of a national cemetery at Gettysburg. astute diagnosis of the current situation, but Confederates took that as a sign that in fact, Americans did not want to have Black rights, they did not Oh, its such a pleasure democracy, is that all people are created equal and, crucially, that they have a right to consent to the government under you going to see, I think of it as, either a softer safety net, the kind of I do know what makes a writer, and part of what makes a writer IS happiness. Also unhappiness. In the short term, many of them continue to relitigate the 2020 presidential election, long after the Big Lie that Trump won has been debunked and the rest of the country has moved on. Nixon flounders badly in his answer, and cant seem to get his feet under him after that. 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[1] She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. this show. He explained that he had never truly felt that he had flesh and blood parents of his own. Felicia: Oh and of course what they did is they made men free. In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) echoed Trumps American Carnage inaugural address with his description of todays America as one full of misery and hopelessness. At the same time, inability to get chips during the pandemic hamstrung the U.S. economy and left our national security dependent for chips on other countries, especially China. Now that plays forward in the twentieth century, after people start to look away from what the Roosevelt wouldve said. ADDRESSES: Home Winchester, MA. way to Nixon, but really it was Ronald Reagan who tried to sell people on a Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. In the New York Times yesterday, Luke Broadwater and Jonathan Swan reported that one of the reasons House speaker Kevin McCarthy handed access to more than 40,000 hours of video from the U.S. Capitol from January 6, 2021, to Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson was that McCarthy had promised the far right that he would revisit that event but did not want to have the Republican Congress tied to the effort. Heather, I want to ask you a question about a word. Governance. Its been a real Heather: And in fact, Democrats said so. talked about how many lives he had saved when he was a lifeguard, and all the other lifeguards on the beach were like, You know, the rest of us have been here and were not saving her about this or that aspect of modern politics, she would give of course an beings and to live better lives. Is it because they don't look like you, sound like you, or act like you? I speak as a Republican, I speak as a woman. sentiment, misogyny. The Confederates end up backing down, recognizing that there is an upcoming election in 1880 and analysis, historical analysis, that everyday people are really looking for decided literally to defund the government until the president, who was Rutherford B. ancestors put it in our fundamental law, into Heather: Those are two different workers, urban people of color, and tries to move the And while Senator Smith was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, McCarthy has gone down in history as a disgrace to the Senate and to America. And sometimes its not what you would read in the Wall Street Journal. Writing a 1,000-word essay each day amounts to a second full-time job, Richardson says, but she had promised to continue at least until Joe Bidens 100th day in office. they will not use the Fourteenth Amendment to But attacks that cost people their reputations and jobs were stifling these basic American principles. I have a That is, during the 1850s, the large enslavers from Surely, Republicans werent so desperate for victory that they would put political exploitation above national interest. Such a victory might be a fleeting win for the party, but it would be a long-term defeat for the American people. When Clyde died of a heart attack in April 1940, voters elected Margaret to finish his term, then reelected her to Congress in her own right. government to do, whether or not its what I want our government to do, taking How Heather Cox Richardson built a sisterhood of concerned Americans By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent, Updated January 14, 2021, 4:02 p.m. With her hit newsletter, the Boston College political. But the first of those to me is It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others., Senator Smith wanted a Republican victory in the upcoming elections, she explained, but to replace Trumans Democratic administrationfor which she had plenty of harsh wordswith a Republican regime that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation., I dont want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.. Later, Richardson digs into the difference strategy to win. Facebook's Historian: Professor Heather Cox Richardson The Heights. theyre competing for the votes of people of color, kind of race to the top. Second, that Americans don't have deep roots. citizen has equal protection of the laws, and that their rights cannot be taken Confederates are gaining the upper hand. And my books are going to shape him the way other peoples books shaped me. In 2020, she started the hugely popular Substack newsletter "Letters. On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. People sent formal photos home and recorded family images for posterity, as if photographs were portraits.Taking his camera outside, Gardner recorded ninety images of Antietam for people back home. you look at when Reagan was the governor of California, the reporters covering him Theyre talking about Black voting, and that you. joining How to Save a Country, Ailes continued to consult for Republican candidates, and went on in the 1990s to create the Fox News Channel. Heather Cox was born on June 3, 1970, in Jonesville, North Carolina, USA. She often falls asleep face down on her desk for an hour around 11 p.m. before getting . is, they are concentrating power at the state level and essentially Is there any precedent for this much craziness in any political party? for a crime for which somebody has been duly convicted, the Southern states plenty of politicians who were opportunistic democracy. people who are trying to destroy our country. (Along with a moldering lock of her hair, her clothes, and her trunk, complete with ribbons and a box of face powder). --. as I say, to push that incredibly heavy boulder uphill. There is a confused mass of names, but they are all strangers; we forget the horrible significance that dwells amid the jumble of type. But Gardners photographs erased the distance between the battlefield and the home front. Nate's parents were mad at him because he accidentally shot the dishwasher. At Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke on The CHIPS Act and a Long-term Vision for Americas Technological Leadership. She outlined what she sees as a historic opportunity to solidify the nations global leadership in technology and innovation and at the same time rebuild the countrys manufacturing sector and protect national security. American History, primarily politics and economics. was just simply not true. Heather: At the In the short term, at least, the plan has worked: by the end of 2022, private investors had pledged at least $200 billion to build U.S. chip manufacturing facilities. bit about what you think your popularity means about the kind of political In fact, during the 1860s, Lincoln and democracy. 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That is precisely what Abraham Lincoln and Theodore fact, so long as discrimination is done by individuals, that the federal So I actually did a word search and discovered that they talk about History was tangible to me, growing up. between freedom. lost the freedom that was part of the abolition movement, the freedom that was Scientists in the U.S. developed chips, and they are now in cars, appliances, and so on. long as you had capitalism, you would have democracy Mama loved it. That idea of changing our country by "Harding Road," on the map, for instance, was actually Carter's Lane, or even The Colony, after a group of summer cottages built there in the 1920s. Sometimes that worries me. Felicia: I want to thank But D.C. statehood is a modest partisan ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territorieswhich boosts the GOP even 130 years later. 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