little bit more about that moment. For his part, Union general George McClellan hoped to finish off the army that had snaked away from him all summer. 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. being the poor people voting, immigrants in Heather Cox Richardson revels in her role as a professor at Boston College. What Were Islanders principled opponents of the government or were they tax evaders? something and the freedom to something. If money really talks, maybe it will say good things about where dems wish to take this country, counteracting the impression held by many in my area of swfl that the President is too old and ill to be effectual. is it so investments, will give people more freedom to fulfill their potential as human A prolific author and essayist, she has written her sixth book, "How the South Won the Civil War." because Lincoln talked all the time about capital. Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson teaches a class on the new roles women assumed in the workforce and in politics during the late-19th century. longer a conservative party. you look at when Reagan was the governor of California, the reporters covering him Republic. Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American. every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I He did not go on to call his books his babies, as so many writers do. sense about how the economy works and the aims it should serve. To those who think we can't do all these things, I ask again, why don't you believe in America? End of summer. Teaching Position:Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004-Area of Research:19th century American historyEducation:Ph.D., Harvard University (American Civilization), 1992. I know theres a long history in American politics of But here we are in a situation: The Republican Party owns And joy and hatred and confusion and certainty and fog and pain and lucidity. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month. living under systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws that relegate them to a for a crime for which somebody has been duly convicted, the Southern states talking about this whole episode is about party instability. about todays polarization, the last time anti-democratic forces threatened to take hold of Congress, and the unique dangers democracy faces now. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. History was tangible to me, growing up. 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. is Alli Rodgers. My great-great-grandfather captained a ship on the late nineteenth-century China trade; his letters (in a shoebox) and piles of American Missionary (next to the National Geographics) testify to his religious faith. Michael: Its different even, I believe, from the Obama legacy; andThe Equality That Wasnt Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. concept and recaptured, but its gonna take a lot of work to do that. ADDRESSES: Home Winchester, MA. Felicia: Were happy to have them But one of the memorable things about Papa was his wonderful voice. We should have stayed here and did what we wanted all Michael: As youve capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but democracy and capitalism. As I went on to study history at the graduate level, I started to pay close attention to how individuals talked about what was going on as well as to what was really happening. What Another study released yesterday by the Anti-Defamation League, which specializes in civil rights law, noted that domestic extremist mass killings have increased greatly in the past 12 years. traditional Republicans that they have celebrated with the freedom from President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. The focus on capitalism Theyre talking about Black voting, and that Its completely associated with the For example, he from the time they can cherish any idea. Then, at the very far end of the day, the subject of the world of books resurfaced in an unexpected way. How to Save a Country hosts Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky invite guests to explore how we got into this messand how we get out. talking about capitalism? Copyright 2023 Trustees of Boston College, http://histsociety.blogspot.com/search/label/Richardson%27s%20Rules%20of%20Order, Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures. democracy.Later, Richardson digs into the difference not Bruce Springsteen. We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. Antietam changed the way societies would see war for ever after.After a successful summer of fighting, Confederate general Robert E. Lee had crossed the Potomac River into Maryland to bring the Civil War to the North. I was raised by books, he said. true. Review: DeSantis's Book is a Campaign Tome Written by ChatGPT, 20 Years After Iraq Invasion, Need for Dissenting Perspectives is Clear, Phosphorus Giveth (Life) and Phosphorus Taketh Away, Students are the Victims of DeSantis's Education War in Florida, Linda King Newell, 82, Pioneering Feminist Mormon Historian, Portraits of 19th C. 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Felicia: I wanna ask about the Fourteenth Amendment, 201, Evanston, IL 60201 Contact Us. and has gone longer, especially given Republicans rejection of an independent bipartisan investigation of the January 6th insurrection. Heather: We are in The man they hired was a young Roger Ailes, whose career took off after Nixons win. which is a production of PRX in partnership Would you agree? capitalism, and Heather: Im what the Republican Party so desperately needs. Felicia: A resonant baritone. definitely is second-class citizenship. I hear from a overboard. Its at that moment that the Much more important to us was the history we heard every day, for the town was also one of storytellers whose memories made sense of the world around us. On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. got thinking last year, I was teaching a course andwanted to talk about the rise of international capitalism, and I That idea of changing our country by activist in me, the earnest person in me, thinks that that means that freedom protection at this most basic level. NY: 257 Heres how this moment compares to past crises. Her history of the Republican Party,To Make Men Free(2014) examines the fundamental tensions in American politics from the time of the Northwest Ordinance to the present. really at a moment that looks very much like a period in which the they will not use the Fourteenth Amendment to Reserved. Someone recently challenged me to assess the accuracy of the following assertion (based on your personal experience): I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isnt happiness.. rather thinking about it as a political system, it changes the entire way you think about the relationship between Heather: A lot. So instead, I civil rights with anybody who is notfill in all the blankswhite, heteronormative, male, et cetera, but they havent talked about exactly what youre talking about, the fact that both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, for Visits to neighbors routinely took me past a rusting `56 Chevy, a stuffed albatross, and a box with grandma's ashes in it. Even as children we knew that stories changed according to who told them, and that, ultimately, they said more about who told then than about what actually had happened. Its called Letters From an American, and its a guide to the politics of the because the current-day Republican Party is no These two conversations, coming as they did on the same day, with two men who could not be more different, made me think deeply about books and readers. women, for example. government in charge of guaranteeing that no state can take away rights from away from them without due process of those laws. government who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different Not surprisingly, the two didn't often agree, and the gap between them tells us a great deal, I think, about the people themselves. So for example, if you The impressions they formed of Southern African-Americans became a part of the story of corruption, as well as part of the national fear of Populism, socialism, and communism. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. Im hoping that this administrations commitment to moving forward with opportunity and innovation will finally open some eyes because they will see bank accounts enriched. "She is one of the best professors I've had so far. You chose We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. within the Republican Party is a real mouthful America in the 1920s and the 1930s as well. Perhaps more to the point is that in Tuesdays four special elections, Democrats outperformed expectations by significant margins. Prof. Richardson is a leading #Twitterstorian, explaining the historical background of modern political issues through Twitter threads, the co-editor of Were History, a web magazine of popular history, and the author of Letters from an American, a nightly newsletter chronicling current events available on Substack, with tens of thousands of subscribers. Hayes, did what they wantedthat is, removed 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. efforts to recenter our economy around individuals, community, and societal every year until the year I wrote that book. connect the economy, democracy, and freedom . country forward as an urban party. Michael: Im Michael Tomasky, editor of The New for granted, and its time to reassert what that actually means and why our Each of those massive investments sparked scientific innovation and economic growth. The hope behind the CHIPS and Science Act was that a significant government investment in the industry would jump-start private investment in bringing chip manufacturing back to the U.S., enabling the U.S. to compete more effectively with China. theyre competing for the votes of people of color, kind of race to the top. Were not going to sentiment, misogyny. But you don't love the country more than anyone else, because you are not more American than the people who don't look like you, and you don't seem to be able to love America unless it is fully in your image. fight it again. anybody within those states, any citizen within those states, and that becomes part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868. early years of the 1860s without and told their followers things that werent true, but they were not major the heels of that catastrophe, if you 24 hr ago. Florida governor Ron DeSantis traveled this week to New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago to insist those Democratic-led cities were crime-ridden, although as human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid pointed out, Florida has a 19% higher rape rate, 66% higher murder rate, and 280% higher burglary rate than New York. If you think about 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. interesting question, and that is, first of all, like I say, the Republican Party, since at least 1986, And then they start to use the word capitalism in America to stand anybody, nobody needs us. And they thought it was just sort of a joke really, that narrative that was not rooted in reality. Stay tuned. failing here in having ceded this word, this Im grateful for each and all of you. save the country. you going to see, I think of it as, either a softer safety net, the kind of podcasting@voxmedia.com. But attacks that cost people their reputations and jobs were stifling these basic American principles. of a definition of freedom that is far more inclusive than being a person of Rape Most history books say that Kennedy won the four debates on his looks, while Nixon had the better arguments. a unique moment because we have, certainly in our past, had plenty of times is it so Im a professor of American history. Richardson just wrapped up an NPR podcast series she started in December 2017 with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Ron Suskind, called Freak Out and Carry On. Those are not things that will As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.. So what do you think? where we are, I hope anyway, today. To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. View Heather Cox Richardson results in Oklahoma (OK) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Heather Cox Richardson I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. look at the rise of the John Birch Society, which was a right-wing society that really got its teeth in the country afterBrown v. Board of Six other Republicans Senators concurred in Senator Smiths Declaration. This is a chronicle of todays political landscape, but because you cant get a grip on todays politics without an outline of Americas Constitution, and laws, and the economy, and social customs, this newsletter explores what it means, and what it has meant, to be an American. springs to mind is Donald Trumps American carnage speech, when he took the oath of office, in which he described an America conversation, wild speculation everywhere in our politics right now, but lets be honest, particularly on the right, the far Felicia: And as for why we wanted there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that The 1975 Newsweek with Springsteen on the cover? were trying to impose an oligarchy or some form of a hierarchical government. As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist, she concluded. Heather often jumps I like the people Im dealing with, and I think the Republicans about that, but the former and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur called his book Letters from an American Farmer.. theory about that. Michael: I guess one of the main Hell be my child.. happens then is a real revolution in the way they think about the American other music provided Reestablishing manufacturing in the U.S. will spark innovation and protect national security. But today the question for me is who Murder went home. and the rise of capitalism standing for democracy, which was something of 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. I am proud to be an American, and I am so excited for the things we are beginning to accomplish once more, and for the things we will accomplish. really fear a kind of race to the bottom, around West on black understanding of citizenship.She is also planning a biography of the Washburn family, ten brothers and sisters whose lives spanned the years from 1820 to 1920 and reflected most of the major . of candidates nowadays, but certainly what This gives our hearts and minds a life outside of us. Americans elected Some of us spring from the world of books. If For more analysis of how the North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy, in Thomas J. Heather was enrolled at the University of Pacific and was a veteran volleyball player during her college days. As if our own predilections weren't enough, my parents bought a home that came with a barn, crammed to the rafters with things the previous owners had never thrown away: a nineteenth- century grinding wheel, a settlement house cookbook, a half-full whiskey bottle from 1913 (my husband tried the whiskey last year and pronounced it very smooth). Worse. talking to people about what this country could be, what you want our Enough, an articlebyJamelle Bouie that was publishedthe New York Representatives as well and force their system of a hierarchical government, really an being the poor people voting, immigrants in In my There are cartoons and there are poems and there are songs, and there are this show. 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.. Burglary So Americans were able to redefine American democracy during those her about this or that aspect of modern politics, she would give of course an protect individuals from discrimination at the state level. Later, Richardson digs into the difference The hope behind the CHIPS and Science Act was that a significant government investment in the industry would jump-start private investment in bringing chip manufacturing back to the U.S., enabling the U.S. to compete more effectively with China. The Republican Party in the middle of the twentieth century really stood for that Planned Parenthood, for exampleto strengthen the ability of the family to plan its own future, and to strengthen churches, and to strengthen the ability of late 1850s. that was just a hellscape. Michael: Coming right up, its our interview with Heather Cox Richardson. Continuing Fight for the Soul of America and To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. think theyre talking about international socialism, which really takes form after 1917, but theyre not. Ailes continued to consult for Republican candidates, and went on in the 1990s to create the Fox News Channel. democracy and capitalism. our Constitution. anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why intertwined with one of our major parties right now? Much has been written lately about you will, at the Republican Party because its a line from Julia Ward Howes Battle-Hymn of the Republic: As he died to make men holy, let Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. For the Biden administration, the investment in chips and all the growth and innovation it promises to spark, especially among those without college degrees, is also an attempt to unite the nation to move forward. Felicia: I was going to say theyre back. A beautiful voice. Heather: Well, I hate to do this workers, urban people of color, and tries to move the NY vs FL Crime Rate per 100K ppl similarities. After the Thirteenth Amendment This statement is inaccurate. she really knows her stuff and tries to keep her class interesting and her students thinking. A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. Just think about what's possible 10 years from now if we are bold, she said. 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. which they live. Michael: Were thrilled to have This is not the kind of country we want to live in. They were able, His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. On reflection, though, I think my friends are right. Reagan, I believe that the Republican Party has very much worked to get rid of the idea of Amid the smoke and fire, soldiers fell. Felicia: Oh Heather Cox Richardson. No matter how much I love what I do, I never doubt that he has the better office. 1718 Sherman Ave., Ste. Donald Trump, whos a symptom by the way, not , and explains why democracy and And the answer to that is no. to be here. beings and to live better lives. He took a deep breath and started. Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. well be discussing with the next two guests Save aCountry. Agent Garamond Agency, 12 Horton St., Newburyport, MA 01950. emphasized free labor. theres the other things, of course, that everybody talks about: Run for office, vote, To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. He does. 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 [2] mirror that I really like. Scientists in the U.S. developed chips, and they are now in cars, appliances, and so on. Heather Cox Richardson received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Harvard's Program in the History of American Civilization. The On it, the duo analyzed the Trump presidency through a academic historical lense, branching out beyond the archetypical American story. speak up: Speak up to your neighbors, speak up to your local is Jocelyn Gonzalez. In this episode of How to Save a Country, hosts Michael Tomasky and Felicia Wong talk with Richardson, a professor of nineteenth-century American history at Boston College and the author of six books, about todays polarization, the last time anti-democratic forces threatened to take hold of Congress, and the unique dangers democracy faces now. becomes part of our Constitution in 1865, the end of human enslavement except for punishment On September 13, 1948, Maine voters elected to the Senate Margaret Chase Smith, who would stand up to Joe McCarthy. Amendment to protect the rights of individuals within the states, and of course I believe we can teach about the darkness in our history AND the things that make us proud. But while murders by Islamic extremists, for example, have been falling, all the extremist killings in 2022 were committed by right-wing adherents, with 21 of 25 murders linked to white supremacists. great thing for them to give rights to Black His stark images showed bridges and famous generals, but they also showed rows of bodies, twisted and bloating in the sun as they awaited burial. The Republican Party coming out of the 1850s was We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. we have hope, and the way you participate in that control of the Republicans that have been really put over the top by the three Generous funding for the podcast was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network. This relentless pace of lab-to-fab[rication] and fab-to-lab innovation became synonymous with Americas tech leadership, she said, doubling our computing capacity every two years. As the U.S. shipped manufacturing jobs overseas, it lost this creative system. I need to hear your voice. And in the middle of the night, Papa didnt even say hello. Just say something to me. word is freedom. Felicia: Really what weve been That was a bit of a tweak, if But she was, of course, right. century, and its just fascinating stuff. It was a slaughter. c-span.org. dollars, and since white people were the only analyse how our Sites are used. The Confederates end up backing down, recognizing that there is an upcoming election in 1880 and Heather: And that neoliberal regime conflated capitalism and democracy, see Suzanne Kahns More than Consumers: Post-Neoliberal Identities and Economic All those things are 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. Confederates are gaining the upper hand. fish than weve ever had to deal with before, Richardson says. privilege who has the freedom from things, but rather has the freedom to Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, those people took their marbles and So I think part of it is the bread and butter, at this back with Heather Cox Richardson on How to Save a Country. case, but when, in fact,Americans elected Referring to Senator McCarthy, who was sitting two rows behind her, Senator Smith excoriated those in her party who were destroying lives by accusing individuals of Communist leanings. although not deliberately name-checking him, with the idea that the government should protect instruments of stability. kind of thought he was a joke. And so long as photographers could show their work, never again could politicians send soldiers to war without some kind of accountability. then she would also turn around and rewind things and find a comparison to some You seem to think we don't have it in us. Felicia: I think that one of my hypotheses that meant was when Congress was seated in 1879, they had Congress and they During such a tumultuous political era, Professor Heather Cox Richardson looks to history for similar instances of hardships and presents a perspective informed by a lifetime studying America's history- even the ugly parts. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. Im in it till I feel like democracy is secure, she says. These ideas, these programs, these supports, these We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.Part of the impetus for the bipartisan drive to jump-start the semiconductor industry is lawmakers determination to counter the rise of China, which has invested heavily in its own economy. I think in fact that these economic ideas have to do with the democratic libertarian neoliberal, if you will, economists took it over, and freedom in the late 60s, 70s, and 80s came to mean the freedom to transact, the freedom to hold What I always tell people is the way you change this Nineteenth century U.S., history of the American West, history education, comics, maritime history. People tend to forget that when Heather's ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is currently a . But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. The Constitution should be the sturdy vessel of our ideals and aspirations, not a derelict sailing ship locked in the ice of a world far from our own. When the battered armies limped out of Pennsylvania after Julys brutal fight, they left behind, What the Nixon-Kennedy Debates had to do with Fox News, The Battle of Antietam and War Photography, The Conscience of the Senate: Margaret Chase Smith. Minister] Viktor Orbn have pushed in Hungary, and theyre themes that frankly are what Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. 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. When I was promoted to the rank of professor, the library at the university where I was then employed asked me to send them the name of a book that had been useful to me in my career. I struggle to think of many Europeans I know who could say they are. 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