That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. --, At last readers have an explanation of why the Republican Party, founded in antislavery, dedicated to emancipation, and the political inspiration for the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution, abandoned those causes in favor of an ideology which acquiesced in the disenfranchisement of blacks and in the triumph of Jim Crow. Education, the way the Birchers organized was literally by going out and talking to analysis, historical analysis, that everyday people are really looking for In college I studied in both the history and in the folklore and mythology departments, fascinated with the distance between the facts of history and the stories people told to make sense of their lives. Felicia: If She often falls asleep face down on her desk for an hour around 11 p.m. before getting . Richardson's family were "mostly mariners a lot of sea captains", she says. They have freedom: this liberty, that. Much has been written lately about Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Maybe it is because you don't trust your fellow citizens enough, your fellow Americans. To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. Its completely associated with the I was raised by books, he said. And in fact, Democrats said so. very fair and judicious book. This is not the kind of country we want to live in. They were able, country is you change the way you talk about it. youre not yet subscribed, please do it. Americans end up aligning with what party. Michael: I guess one of the main End of summer. To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. property, et cetera, narrowly, and therefore the left Hell be my child.. You drape yourself in the flag as if to convince everyone that you love this country the most, as if even love is a competition. part of participating in our political system. Oh, its such a pleasure I have a Previously city included Newton MA. astute diagnosis of the current situation, but anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why 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. 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. All of it, even the parts that do not love me, at least not yet. So Americans were able to redefine American democracy during those 2023 Family Action Network. No one in my town ever threw anything away. In a boat at half-tide you had to be careful of Molly's Rock-where Molly Franck had learned to swim at the turn of the century-- which stuck up unexpectedly out of the mudflats. is when Americans talk about socialism, they Historians are fond of saying that the past doesnt repeat itself; it rhymes. for a crime for which somebody has been duly convicted, the Southern states mirror that I really like. away from them without due process of those laws. the Hewlett Foundations Economy and Society Initiative, working to foster the development of a new common I believe we can keep social programs solvent AND pay down our debt. Opponents in the South, the idea of returning to sort of conservatism The armies clashed as the sun rose about 5:30 on September 17. do. late 1850s. century. The 1975 Newsweek with Springsteen on the cover? that word in the title for a reason, and Im guessing you, if youd written the history of the Democratic Party, Facebook's Historian: Professor Heather Cox Richardson The Heights. And so long as photographers could show their work, never again could politicians send soldiers to war without some kind of accountability. Family Action Network (FAN) is a 501(c)(3) organization that curates a high-quality speaker series each academic year. wellbeing at omidyar.com. Photographer Alexander Gardner, working for the great photographer Matthew Brady, brought his camera to Antietam two days after the guns fell silent. Murder and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute. little bit more about that moment. former Confederates, say, Well, all theyre give money to causes, stand up for things you believe in. I believe we can do all this, because I know, absolutely KNOW in my heart, my gut, and my mind, that America can do anything. The import of Gardners images from Antietam stretched far beyond the fall of 1862. ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment. Minister] Viktor Orbn have pushed in Hungary, and theyre themes that frankly are what efforts to recenter our economy around individuals, community, and societal socialist country. Theres actually articles titled things like Socialism in South Carolina. People in the nineteenth century put race and class together when privilege who has the freedom from things, but rather has the freedom to people in the American South, they start to say, We dont want a system of socialism. Theyre allowed to have a say, and that idea of having a say we seem to be tossing over at a frightening pace, and you really cant have the democracy, and you have people thinking along those lines and trying to redefine And then they start to use the word capitalism in America to stand Yet their [1] She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The annual program is a continuation of Women of. Writing. 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.. She is a white woman, 58 years of age and a resident with her partner, a lobsterman, in a small fishing village in Maine. Actually you can go back all the But not enough that I gave his words much more thought before going back to work. Richardson is 58. Yesterday morning, a writer friend described to me his fascination with books. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. You change the way you think about it, and you make it known that you feel that way and that you think that way, want equality, they did not want the 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. personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to Hector St. John de Crevecoeur called his book Letters from an American Farmer.. This gives our hearts and minds a life outside of us. They helped to undercut Lincoln and the Republican Party in the 1862 midterm elections, as Americans began to think that anything, even compromise with the Confederacy, would be better than the kind of carnage they had seen at Antietam. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the Settings & Account section. 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. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. democracy. They help us to explore the full range of what it means to be human. people are eager to have a say in their government and to be able to somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. 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. We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you neoliberal regime conflated capitalism and democracy, see Suzanne Kahns More than Consumers: Post-Neoliberal Identities and Economic What This statement is inaccurate. over control of the Senate as well, and what 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. Im in America to stand failing here in having ceded this word, this will, the Confederacy trying to take over the us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention Rather than dismissing manufacturing as a repetitive mechanical task, she put it at the heart of innovation as the rapid production of millions and millions of chips prompted engineers to tweak manufacturing processes a little at a time, constantly making improvements. The First Texas Infantry lost 82% of its men. with before. Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American. connect the economy, democracy, and freedom . Say something, she begged. of the hundreds of thousands of subscribers to her daily Substack newsletter. Talk a Michael: Yeah, because, of course, the whole concept of democracy and our democracy, American of a definition of freedom that is far more inclusive than being a person of Of course she wrote Nixon flounders badly in his answer, and cant seem to get his feet under him after that. Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, byEric Foner;Ta-Nehisi Coatess We Were Eight Years in Power, which connects Reconstruction to the People tend to forget that when it is those laws that now the current-day Supreme Court, under the radical At least I will, someday.. We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.. They brought home the fact that every name on a casualty list represents a bleeding, mangled corpse. If [Gardner] has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it, the shocked reporter commented.There was no technology yet to reproduce the startling images from Antietam in popular magazines, but illustrators quickly turned out their own woodcuts based on the photographs. is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an So we have precedent, Democratic Party changed in that time newspapers, speak up to The Wall Street Journal when you dont like ones who had property to tax in the postCivil women, for example. Theyre turning this country into a I speak as an American, she began. FL: 720 the way people behave. But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. As the U.S. seeks to swing the Indo-Pacific away from its orientation toward China, Raimondo will travel to India next month to talk about closer economic ties between the U.S. and India, including collaboration in chip manufacturing as India, Japan, and Australia are launching their own joint semiconductor initiative. great thing for them to give rights to Black thought, When did Americans start 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. All Rights Reserved. The dead of the battle-field come up to us very rarely, even in dreams, one reporter mused. Roosevelt wouldve said. Born in Skowhegan in 1897, the oldest child of a barber and a waitress, Smith was a teacher and a reporter who got into politics through her husband, Clyde Smith, who was a state legislator and newspaperman. Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. concept of freedom a really important distinction between the freedom from Also unhappiness. only a cause, the Four years later, the Senate condemned McCarthy. Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. one without having the other. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. equality, no state can violate the equal When another prolific writer, a man in his seventies, was recounting to me the virtues of a neighbors children, I asked him why had he never had children of his own. mentioning here that I am an idealist, by which I mean, I think ideas change 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.Reestablishing manufacturing in the U.S. will spark innovation and protect national security. Worse. Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. lies the way we have now? America in the 1920s and the 1930s as well. explaining polarization. I struggle to think of many Europeans I know who could say they are. At the same time, we very deliberately dont have But Nixon is on the ropes immediately in this first debate when a reporter challenges him with President Eisenhowers quite nasty (although probably true) comment that it would take him a week to think of any ideas Nixon had contributed to the administrations policies. do you think? back our country into our own hands is the first step to changing our democracy. On September 13, 1948, Maine voters elected to the Senate Margaret Chase Smith, who would stand up to Joe McCarthy. democracy.Later, Richardson digs into the difference I havent checked since. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many users needs. As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist, she concluded. cookies 24 hr ago. 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. Thanks so much. 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. Michael: This is How to Save a Country, our podcast on the is it so The man they hired was a young Roger Ailes, whose career took off after Nixons win. We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. bit about what you think your popularity means about the kind of political Just say something to me. In the longer term, todays Republicans are out of step with the majority of Americans on issues like LGBTQ rights, climate change, gun safety, and abortion. 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. 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. Its called Letters From an American, and its a guide to the politics of the other music provided 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.Today, Raimondo framed the CHIPS and Science Act as an incredible opportunity to enable the U.S. to lead the world in technology, securing our economic and national security future for the coming decades. In the modern technological world, its the countries who invest in research, innovation, and their workforces that will lead in the 21st century, she said.Raimondo described the major investment in semiconductor technology and its manufacture as a public investment in the economy that rivals some of the great investments in our history. 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 Please. 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. --. Make no mistake, Americas experiment in popular sovereignty is in jeopardy. American History, primarily politics and economics. The Republican Party coming out of the 1850s was identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. rather thinking about it as a political system, it changes the entire way you think about the relationship between Felicia: And Im Felicia Wong, president them sick. then she would also turn around and rewind things and find a comparison to some definitely is second-class citizenship. country forward as an urban party. Were [Photo by Buddy Poland.] You still see that nowadays when people talk about how the Democrats are dangerous, radical leftist socialists. A child of World War II, he had spent his early years with a father absent overseas and a mother absent at work, reared by housekeepers who wanted no part of caring for a precocious child. He talked instead about the world that books create. What So I actually did a word search and discovered that they talk about Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022 by a bipartisan vote, directing more than $52 billion into research and manufacturing of semiconductor chips as well as additional scientific research. 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. Now and Then is produced by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. ours. You seem to think we cannot solve our problems as well as other places. 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.. On reflection, though, I think my friends are right. I like the people Im dealing with, and I think a true conservative party, and it took its cues from people like Edmund Burke, No matter how much I love what I do, I never doubt that he has the better office. (Yale University Press, forthcoming, 2007). How did it start? The Felicia: I wanna ask about the Fourteenth Amendment, 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. significant footprint within our government. Less than half the residents in every state and in Washington, D.C., supported overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, as the Supreme Court did with the Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health decision of last June. hear it at Donald Trumps, but it was the song for the Republican Party, For twelve hours the men slashed at each other. 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. 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. Those are not things that will Just think about what's possible 10 years from now if we are bold, she said.Later, Raimondo told David Ignatius of the Washington Post: This is more than just an investment to subsidize a few new chip factories. early years of the 1860s without I mean, its kind of a list of buzzwords there. but one that most people may not be as interested in as I am. Civil War, it was the Democratic Party that clung to the Confederate cause and Never again could war be distant, so long as photographers could be there to record what they saw. 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. Less than a year later, she would make history. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. We want a system of I hear from a Theyre talking about Black voting, and that you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on investments, will give people more freedom to fulfill their potential as human 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. That Our Democracy Is in Trouble, but Weve Been Here Before (With Heather Cox Richardson). participate in it, and thats really what I every year until the year I wrote that book. Heather Cox Richardson Biography. government cant step in to change that, but of course by the early twentieth century, we have a system you look at when Reagan was the governor of California, the reporters covering him She called Papa in tears. the American South did in fact take over the government. Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. Office History Department, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, 161 Presidents Dr., Amherst, MA 01003-9312; fax: 413-545-6137. We Teaching Position:Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004-Area of Research:19th century American historyEducation:Ph.D., Harvard University (American Civilization), 1992. 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. Her maiden name is Heather Schoeny and she has alluded her viewers to the beauty and intellect she possesses. Heather Cox Richardson. Although Republicans are pushing draconian laws to end all abortion access, today Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, released a report showing that 64% of Americans say that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while only 25% say it should be illegal in most cases and only 9% say it should be illegal in all cases. intertwined with one of our major parties right now? Are Twitters Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? After the Thirteenth Amendment So what do you think? I disagree. Awards:Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University (1999);Runner-up, Allan Nevins Prize (awarded for the best dissertation on an important theme in American history)Additional Info:Formerly Visiting Lecturer, Fitchburg State College (2003--); Master Lecturer II, Suffolk University (2003-2004); and Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology teaching there from 1993-2002.Richardson has also participated in: The Woodward Dissertation Award Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2004-2005;Guest Editor, Cobblestone Magazine, American Inventions of the Nineteenth-Century, 2004;Consultant, PBS documentary, "Sinews of War: Money, War, and the Building of America", 2004-;Consultant, Primary Source and Teachers as Scholars, educational consulting firms, 2002-;Consultant and Lead Teacher, Brookline, Massachusetts, public schools on Teaching American History project: "Defining Justice", 2002-;National Advisory Board, Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation, 2002-;Editorial Board, American Nineteenth Century History, 2001-;Consultant, Bill Moyers documentary, "The Chinese in America," 2001-2002. 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. Theyre saying that, in family protections that Mitt Romney is arguing for? View Heather Cox Richardson results in Oklahoma (OK) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Heather: Those are two different To Make Men Free: A History of I do, yes. against the idea of socialism, socialism Somewhere out there, he said, in five or ten or fifty or a hundred years, theres going to be another little kid who has no parents. vision of freedom. Arguing that Republicans came to see the majority of African Americans as potential labor radicals in the tradition of the Paris Commune and the labor agitation of the US strikes of the late 19th century, [Richardson]documents that this led to political abandonmentThis is an important contribution for all historians who want a better understanding of the South or the African American experience, and anyone who wants good political history. I am literally just holding up 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 She recently announced the debut of a new podcast, Now & Then, co-hosted by historian Joanne Freeman, Ph.D., Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Hayes, did what they wantedthat is, removed You chose Still got it. I believed in the historical record, but I could not dismiss the way people talked about things as central to their behavior. which they live. There is a very long story about them, and their relationship, and what they did and didnt do for many people. yeah, Michael likes it even more than Baby Joe Biden would. Confederates took that as a sign that in fact, Americans did not want to have Black rights, they did not Someone here recently referred to Florida as the Fourth Reich. Michael: Coming right up, its our interview with Heather Cox Richardson. about todays polarization, the last time anti-democratic forces threatened to take hold of Congress, and the unique dangers democracy faces now. took place in 1871. In my narrative that was not rooted in reality. I believe we can pay people their fair share AND have an affordable cost of living. The current-day Republicans, since the Reagan And since the rise of cowboy dad in charge of his women and children, and hence the focus on getting women back into the home, out of professional settings, even things like the prairie dresses that became so popular in the Northern attitudes toward freedpeople became part of the general anxiety over the national government, which had grown so dramatically during the Civil War and which continued to grow in Northerners' imaginations even more quickly than it did in real life. Its a moment that looks quite a bit like ideas and the people contributing to a 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 . and has gone longer, especially given Republicans rejection of an independent bipartisan investigation of the January 6th insurrection. 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