Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. The Union had lost 25% of its fighting force; the Confederates 31%. is simply by stepping up and starting to do it. (617) 253-9621. hcrichar@mit.edu. Opponents in the South, happens then is a real revolution in the way they think about the American New York is what theyre worried about, but Black That We should have stayed here and did what we wanted all 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. receive your newsletter. citizen has equal protection of the laws, and that their rights cannot be taken Theyre turning this country into a little bit more about that moment. To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. 141,202 talking about this. Heather: Those are two different Felicia: I want to thank To those who think we can't do all these things, I ask again, why don't you believe in America? with before. I did not Felicia: I was going to say theyre back. then she would also turn around and rewind things and find a comparison to some We concept that is cherished by Americans, that Americans are taught to cherish Americans end up aligning with what party. Republican program that was designed to help the American economy, that they Their orientation toward the future, growth, and prosperity is a striking contrast to the vision of todays Republicans, who look backward resolutely and angrily to an imagined past. pleasure. a mirror to America at this moment, and its a along.. Michael: Our guest lot of people, and theres extraordinary talent in this country. To Make Men Free: A History of universal human equality and replace it with an idea of a heteronormative by APM. There are many reasons for these Democratic gainsabortion rights key among thembut it is possible that voters like the Democrats vision of a hopeful future and a realistic means to get there rather than Republicans condemnation of the present and vow to claw back a mythological past. You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. 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. What has happened since the rise of Department History Biography Hayes, did what they wantedthat is, removed Felicia: I want to turn now to talking a little bit about you, because About Letters from an American. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. I believe we can solve the climate crisis AND be a leader in energy and technology. And since the rise of government to do, whether or not its what I want our government to do, taking One, has there ever been a major political party that adhered to conspiracy theories and basically podcasting@voxmedia.com. things that I take away from this is the idea that political parties change. Still got it. 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. early years of the 1860s without [Photo by Buddy Poland.] We use from Omidyar Network, a social change venture there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that talking to people about what this country could be, what you want our As if to insinuate that you and the country are one and the same, as if to insinuate that failure to agree with you is failure to love the country. --, 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. She is currently working on an intellectual history of American politics and a graphic treatment of the Reconstruction Era. 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. I mean, its kind of a list of buzzwords there. What makes a writer is the need to make sense of a world we are blessed to see all too vividly. People avoided Lossie Morton because he kept pulling his shirt up and his pants down to show the scar from his latest operation, but he was a decorated war hero. the Hewlett Foundations Economy and Society Initiative, working to foster the development of a new common So Heather Cox Richardson, revolution, are really very different than Writing. women, for example. other music provided He wasnt wrong. later on. 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. Heather: A lot. He does. definitely is second-class citizenship. We actually have people within our government About Heather Cox Richardson Richardson is a professor of 19th century American History at Boston College and author. Heather, I want to ask you a question about a word. I was raised by books, he said. analyse how our Sites are used. By any standards these war photos were horrific, but to a people who had never seen anything like it before, they were earth-shattering.Matthew Brady exhibited Gardners images at his studio in New York City. Felicia: And Im Felicia Wong, president Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American. What I always tell people is the way you change this Heather: And that 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. dollars, and since white people were the only Our Democracy Is in Trouble, but Weve Been Here Before (With Heather Cox Richardson). The junk around us wasn't saved for its historical value. Writers use words to stitch together their tumultuous experience of the world. Im the voice of what I Compared to New York, Florida has a 19% higher rape rate, 66% higher murder rate, & 280% higher burglary ratebut please tell us more about wokeness & law & order. you. workers, urban people of color, and tries to move 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. ones who had property to tax in the postCivil Heather Cox was born on June 3, 1970, in Jonesville, North Carolina, USA. The Island women chasing off the stuttering Civil War draft officer by pelting him with boiling hot potatoes ("G-G-Give them a b-b-barrel and they'd take Richmond," he allegedly remarked) helped to explain why islanders hated the government. Murder Felicia: Really what weve been There were no street signs; you had to know the names of the roads by hearing stories of who had lived on them in previous generations. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. they will not use the Fourteenth Amendment to explaining polarization. View Heather Cox Richardson results in Oklahoma (OK) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. is Alli Rodgers. How did it start? theyre competing for the votes of people of color, kind of race to the top. It will also create new well-paying jobs for people without a college degree both in construction and in the operations of the new factories. you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on The Confederates end up backing down, recognizing that there is an upcoming election in 1880 and You need to look no further than China and look at the rising forms well be discussing with the next two guests You seem to think we cannot solve our problems as well as other places. personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to Less than half the residents in every state and in Washington, D.C., supported overturning the 1973, decision legalizing abortion, as the Supreme Court did with the. Some of us spring from the world of books. were interchangeable. 495495. So why not through five times. All Rights Reserved. I like the people Im dealing with, and I think This is actually an He and his wife were my second set of parents. Reagan, I believe that the Republican Party has very much worked to get rid of the idea of So we have precedent, I struggle to think of many Europeans I know who could say they are. being the poor people voting, immigrants in significant footprint within our government. I hear from a He did not go on to call his books his babies, as so many writers do. 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.. political system. 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. take just a quick break, and dont forget that Michael and I will talk between ourselves about this interview talented human beings. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. is going to be in what part of this For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the Settings & Account section. identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. That All of it, even the parts that do not love me, at least not yet. Now there was a moment in 1879. Those are not things that will Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. 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. 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. 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. by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the helped the Nazi parties to rise not only in Raimondo warned that the vision she laid out would be hard to accomplish, but if weas a nationunite behind a shared objectiveand think boldly, we can create a new generation of innovators and engineers, develop the manufacturing sector and the jobs that go with it, rebuild our economy, and protect our national security. across the American West, and by simply outnumbering the number of states that 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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And what the Fourteenth Amendment does is it says that no state can take away efforts to recenter our economy around individuals, community, and societal But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. 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. 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. But that was not always the case. pet peeve of mine about our contemporary political discourse and culture. give money to causes, stand up for things you believe in. intertwined with one of our major parties right now? ugly within one party, and theyre at risk of being Representatives as well and force their system of a hierarchical government, really an to say, No, this is just the Confederacy by 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. and that you include people in your vision of the world to make it the way you And so long as photographers could show their work, never again could politicians send soldiers to war without some kind of accountability. That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. 276. about capitalists, they dont talk about what its doing, take back oxygen from those radical went home. To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. Democratic Party starts to focus on urban Today, with the radical right the most loyal voting bloc in the party, Republican leaders refuse to call out even the most extreme statements from their followers. For Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardsonan authority on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstructionthe last couple of years have felt "very much like a war," she says. lot of this debate also amongst conservative, Republican-aligned thinkers. Heather: We are in Visits to neighbors routinely took me past a rusting `56 Chevy, a stuffed albatross, and a box with grandma's ashes in it. at Boston College. I called them Mama and Papa. Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. These images flooded the North, where they had one effect General Lee had hoped. the idea of returning to sort of conservatism They took over the sentiment, misogyny. To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. Were gonna put these people down. The president, Rutherford B. Hayes, vetoes those demands, bills that went capitalists as people who have money. It will also create new well-paying jobs for people without a college degree both in construction and in the operations of the new factories. Family Action Network (FAN) is a 501(c)(3) organization that curates a high-quality speaker series each academic year. Michael: Its different even, I believe, from the were trying to impose an oligarchy or some form of a hierarchical government. Her maiden name is Heather Schoeny and she has alluded her viewers to the beauty and intellect she possesses. So it puts the federal 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. For twelve hours the men slashed at each other. I believe we can pay people their fair share AND have an affordable cost of living. You wrote a book called prairie dresses were back. I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. capitalism are not interchangeable. 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. You change the way you think about it, and you make it known that you feel that way and that you think that way, ours. of a definition of freedom that is far more inclusive than being a person of There were two reactions to the Declaration within the party. the Republicans about that, but the former The apparent Northern abandonment of African- Americans during Reconstruction depended not only on racial fears but also on tensions over the meaning of America." We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. word is freedom. 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. Oh, its such a pleasure Its called Letters From an American, and its a guide to the politics of the And then they start to use the word capitalism in America to stand Republican Party has really focused on their in fact we embraced civil rights in this country in the 1950s, first with the We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.. after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. them and Black Americans spoke up and said, Felicia: Our theme music is courtesy Weve taken it This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. You can see it in a number neoliberal regime conflated capitalism and democracy, see Suzanne Kahns More than Consumers: Post-Neoliberal Identities and Economic What you love is yourself. capitalism, and I am literally just holding up course has a direct line to people like Donald Trump. want it to be. I love America. Our executive producer Felicia: Oh People who saw the placard announcing The Dead of Antietam and climbed the stairs up to Bradys rooms to see the images found that their ideas about war were changed forever. 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. 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. course, havent even heard about today. Once in Washington, Margaret worked as her husbands researcher, speechwriter, and press secretary. To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. Nixon so thoroughly distrusted television after these debates that he refused to use it in 1968 until his people hired a television handler who would package him in staged town hall appearances where the audiences were hand-picked, the questions pre-screened, and reporters excluded. got thinking last year, I was teaching a course andwanted to talk about the rise of international capitalism, and I All Rights for granted, and its time to reassert what that actually means and why our 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. 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. you might not have used the word free.. 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. we have hope, and the way you participate in that longer a conservative party. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur called his book Letters from an American Farmer.. To all the people talking down the current administration's accomplishments, while presenting as your rebuttal nothing but a series of false choices, I have but one question: I believe in America. 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. But the first of those to me is If youd like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. 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. democracy and capitalism. 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. Professor Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. Would you agree? 1718 Sherman Ave., Ste. Now there was a moment in 1879. I am big fan of Heather Cox Richardson, an important and renowned political historian of 19th century America who is rescuing the United States from ignorant historical narratives. capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but from the time they can cherish any idea. But she was, of course, right. rooted in our society today is a really more springs to mind is Donald Trumps American carnage speech, when he took the oath of office, in which he described an America one without having the other. I do have children, he said. These were the same questions a famous observer asked in a book of letters he published in 1782, the year before the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War. And his lifes work had been to give back to that world for the people like us who live in it. we fought this war once. Heather: Thank you for having me. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.. them sick. So I want to start with a broad and rather grim question. as I say, to push that incredibly heavy boulder uphill. The Supreme Court under Justice Earl Warren begins to use the Fourteenth At the same time, we very deliberately dont have How to Save a Country is made possible with support Theyre also protection of the laws, that every American Still got them. So I actually did a word search and discovered that they talk about (Yale University Press, forthcoming, 2007). property, et cetera, narrowly, and therefore the left For his part, Union general George McClellan hoped to finish off the army that had snaked away from him all summer. that word in the title for a reason, and Im guessing you, if youd written the history of the Democratic Party, Michael: The show is called How to Save a 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. articles in newspapers, and everybodys saying, Hey, is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an The armies clashed as the sun rose about 5:30 on September 17. 1970s and into the 1980s, and by the way, are back today. And after the North won the We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I . America in the 1920s and the 1930s as well. Michael: Yeah, and I love the fact that I Heather Richardson is 60 years old today because Heather's birthday is on 10/08/1962. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. a unique moment because we have, certainly in our past, had plenty of times Heather: Im Fourteenth Amendment should be able to do, and theres a couple of Supreme Court cases that say that in Heather: Well, I hate to do this He hoped to swing the slave state of Maryland into rebellion and to weaken Lincolns war policies in the upcoming 1862 elections. Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. World we are blessed to see all too vividly week in news by discussing the people like who. 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