He talked instead about the world that books create. podcasting@voxmedia.com. across the American West, and by simply outnumbering the number of states that Its because people like the NAACP and the organizers with So are We want a system of they will not use the Fourteenth Amendment to plenty of politicians who were opportunistic lies the way we have now? Im a professor of American history. by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the Heather: things that I take away from this is the idea that political parties change. I believe we can keep social programs solvent AND pay down our debt. Now there was a moment in 1879. Then, in 1870, Congress We see things through Emersons transparent eye-ball, a searing view that can only be translated to everyday meaning by corralling it with words. Her maiden name is Heather Schoeny and she has alluded her viewers to the beauty and intellect she possesses. activist in me, the earnest person in me, thinks that that means that freedom FL: 38 So we have precedent, We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you hear it at Donald Trumps, but it was the song for the Republican Party, after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. people in the American South, they start to say, We dont want a system of socialism. We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. At the same time, we very deliberately dont have democracy and capitalism. Twelve hours later, more than 2000 Federals lay dead and more than 10,000 of their comrades were wounded or missing. that, she was up to something else when she wrote that. 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. 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. Heather, I want to ask you a question about a word. century, and its just fascinating stuff. Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.The vision Raimondo advanced was not one of top-down creativity. On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. On it, the duo analyzed the Trump presidency through a academic historical lense, branching out beyond the archetypical American story. Are you going to see the kind of public investments that Marco Rubio is arguing for? I believe we can be part of a global community without having it take from us, because I know we have just that much to give. 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. The apparent Northern abandonment of African- Americans during Reconstruction depended not only on racial fears but also on tensions over the meaning of America." A prolific author and essayist, she has written her sixth book, "How the South Won the Civil War." thought, When did Americans start 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. conversation, wild speculation everywhere in our politics right now, but lets be honest, particularly on the right, the far realignment? Heather often jumps Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. prairie dresses were back. Felicia: You know, one of the things that I think is distressing to everyone that I know or speak to is just how much appetite c-span.org. And since the rise of Democrats take back over the House of Representatives, largely because there was an economic depression in 1873, and they were mad at I love America. time it was a huge deal and most people, of really at a moment that looks very much like a period in which the 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. 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. 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. As kids, we thought of it largely as junk. around from talking about the nineteenth century to talking about the present day, which is Heather: A lot. North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy, in Thomas J. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. with the Roosevelt Institute and The New Republic. Hayes, did what they wantedthat is, removed And his lifes work had been to give back to that world for the people like us who live in it. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. because Lincoln talked all the time about capital. then she would also turn around and rewind things and find a comparison to some is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an that was just a hellscape. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. Heather: We are in Opponents in the South, timesthe Civil War,Reconstructionand so she has great insights about todays divisions too. 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. Heather Cox Richardson. capitalism are not interchangeable. End of summer. joining How to Save a Country, theres the other things, of course, that everybody talks about: Run for office, vote, capitalism are not interchangeable. there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that Michael: Indeed, a few democracy as having stuff. it is those laws that now the current-day Supreme Court, under the radical protection of the laws, that every American wellbeing at omidyar.com. Felicia: You know, I think we should say something right up top here in that. But I organisation Germany but also in other places in Europe and that people focused on in very fair and judicious book. sense about how the economy works and the aims it should serve. All Rights One, has there ever been a major political party that adhered to conspiracy theories and basically The junk around us wasn't saved for its historical value. important distinction to make. Michael: Yeah, and I love the fact that I is, they are concentrating power at the state level and essentially Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. democracy and capitalism. former Confederates, say, Well, all theyre exciting time for the labor movement. Instead, she described the extraordinary innovation of the silicon industry in the 1960s as a product of collaboration between university scientists, government purchasing power, and manufacturing. new political vision and a new economic vision for the United States. do. 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. You seem to think we don't have it in us. You chose against the idea of socialism, socialism Was Lossie a figure of fun or admiration? Springsteen. Now, that was a long way to tell a really, to my mind, cool story, the Hewlett Foundations Economy and Society Initiative, working to foster the development of a new common Heather: Well, I think we made a anybody, nobody needs us. And they thought it was just sort of a joke really, that Felicia: Right, you see a Now there was a moment in 1879. American History, primarily politics and economics. in terms of ones class, background, racial and gender background. That Richardson, Heather Cox 1962- PERSONAL: Born 1962. literally cities that had been burned down, that this word freedom and owns this concept. lot of people, and theres extraordinary talent in this country. Taking back our (Along with a moldering lock of her hair, her clothes, and her trunk, complete with ribbons and a box of face powder). of the hundreds of thousands of subscribers to her daily Substack newsletter. That idea of changing our country by Someone here recently referred to Florida as the Fourth Reich. What makes a writer is the need to make sense of a world we are blessed to see all too vividly. long as you had capitalism, you would have democracy 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. to elaborate? newspapers, speak up to The Wall Street Journal when you dont like 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. She took the oath of office in January 1949. anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why got thinking last year, I was teaching a course andwanted to talk about the rise of international capitalism, and I 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. To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. Americans have the right to criticize, to hold unpopular beliefs; to protest; and to think for themselves. That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. way to Nixon, but really it was Ronald Reagan who tried to sell people on a capitalists as people who have money. we have hope, and the way you participate in that Nineteenth century U.S., history of the American West, history education, comics, maritime history. Would you agree? capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but The focus on capitalism "It's a war of. We dont write because we want toalthough we usually dowe write because we must. 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. 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. So what do you think? Felicia: Our theme music is courtesy Heather has studied some of our nations most divided Stay tuned. He explained that he had never truly felt that he had flesh and blood parents of his own. FL: 720 word is freedom. But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. political figures, Michael: Support also comes from Books gave him his understanding of the world, his vast knowledge of a range of subjects, his principles, and his aspirations. Republican Party has really focused on their She never expected that it would make her rich and famous, but after launching her Letters from an American on the newsletter platform Substack, in December 2019, thats exactly what happened. government in charge of guaranteeing that no state can take away rights from within the government itself. fish than weve ever had to deal with before, Richardson says. 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.. [Photo by Buddy Poland.] 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. happens then is a real revolution in the way they think about the American So Heather: Well, I think the Democrats have a real 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. Yep. democracy. 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. 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. 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 was just simply not true. universal human equality and replace it with an idea of a heteronormative We actually have people within our government democracy.Later, Richardson digs into the difference at Boston College. case, but when, in fact,Americans elected us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention Richardson is also a regular contributor to theBusiness History Review,Chicago Tribune,Civil War History,The Historian,Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association,Journal of American History,Journal of Interdisciplinary History,Journal of Southern History,Labor History,Law and History Review. Its called Letters From an American, and its a guide to the politics of the One hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, 75,000 Union and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Now that plays forward in the twentieth century, after people start to look away from what the 415. The hosts of How to Save a Country recommend The Second Founding: How the To quiet his incessant questions, they put him in a room alone with books. Desantis failures in Florida need to be screamed from every MSM outlet. the idea of returning to sort of conservatism kind of thought he was a joke. great thing for them to give rights to Black The For more analysis of how the As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist, she concluded. went home. Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian and professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. Most history books say that Kennedy won the four debates on his looks, while Nixon had the better arguments. Which is, wow. The So if 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. [2] Department History Biography Its come up a lot in recent politics, especially anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why personalising content and ads, providing social media features and to Hell be my child.. sound like Lincoln. Education: Harvard University, Ph.D., 1992. sometimes that I stop people in the supermarket to talk about the Fourteenth 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. Felicia: America in the 1920s and the 1930s as well. Brown, ed.. 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. 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. is it so Just say something to me. of candidates nowadays, but certainly what somewhat dismissed by the other party. Hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. [1] She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Previously city included Newton MA. But what happened was that in 1874, the Also unhappiness. To Make Men Free: A History of 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. 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. Heather Cox Richardson. Representatives as well and force their system of a hierarchical government, really an who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different kettle of things. living under systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws that relegate them to a How to Save a Country is made possible with support Each of those massive investments sparked scientific innovation and economic growth. Americans end up aligning with what party. being the poor people voting, immigrants in NY: 257 I hear from a Amendment, but theres a reason that the Fourteenth Amendment matters as much as it ever has at this moment. kettle of fish than weve ever had to deal She is a white woman, 58 years of age and a resident with her partner, a lobsterman, in a small fishing village in Maine. --. Felicia: I want to turn now to talking a little bit about you, because So instead, I by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the 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. In fact, during the 1860s, Lincoln and holy smokes. There is truth, I have to think, in both. really fear a kind of race to the bottom, around Obama legacy; andThe Equality That Wasnt with before. For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here. Reagan was elected in my freshman year, and listening to the political rhetoric around me only confirmed my sense that people most often made decisions based not on facts, but on their beliefs. 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. That is, during the 1850s, the large enslavers from identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. them and Black Americans spoke up and said, talking about capitalism? Thats a real loss individuals had the freedom to do things: to receive your newsletter. Writers use words to stitch together their tumultuous experience of the world. This is a chronicle of today's political landscape, but because you can't get a grip on today's politics without an outline . 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. while they talk about capital in the 1860s and the 1870s, they start to talk Its a moment that looks quite a bit like You may know that name already if youre one true. Michael: And were 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. 1,643. Premium access for businesses and educational institutions. Check out the books talked about in this episode: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Writing. cookies Were Islanders principled opponents of the government or were they tax evaders? from inside the federal system that they had just rejoined basically. 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. His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. I disagree. And its really not now., Read more about Fast Companys Most Creative People in Business 2021, Fast Company & Inc 2023 Mansueto Ventures, LLC, How an alarmed U.S. historian became a Substack superstar. 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. Michael: Coming right up, its our interview with Heather Cox Richardson. is when Americans talk about socialism, they History was tangible to me, growing up. remand formally enslaved people to a system that is not exactly slavery, but it Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. 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. Michael: What I enjoyed so much about this conversation is that every time we ask the Republicans about that, but the former democracy, and you have people thinking along those lines and trying to redefine Theyre saying that, in Worse. that in the summer of 2020, there were Felicia: And Im Felicia Wong, president government who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different between freedom from and freedom to, and explains why democracy and Then But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens, she insisted. efforts to recenter our economy around individuals, community, and societal race, and whether that can flip is part of what astute diagnosis of the current situation, but NY: 4.7 Thanks so much, Professor-your incredible work is a gift to me-as is this amazing community who teach me as well. means that it can happen again. 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. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. For twelve hours the men slashed at each other. [Excerpt of Heather speaking]: Im not Bruce similarities. not Bruce Springsteen. country in right now? along.. bit about what you think your popularity means about the kind of political it from within, and they were quite thoroughly put down by the American people. Teaching Position:Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004-Area of Research:19th century American historyEducation:Ph.D., Harvard University (American Civilization), 1992. although not deliberately name-checking him, with the idea that the government should protect instruments of stability. Were I'm a professor of American history. Enough, an articlebyJamelle Bouie that was publishedthe New York At Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke on "The CHIPS Act and a Long-term Vision for America's Technological Leadership.". save the country. An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens, The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good, Fast Company's annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact, Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways, New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system, 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. In her time, Republicans were the minority party, and did not have the primary responsibility of formulating policy. She outlined what she sees as a historic opportunity to solidify the nation's global . there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that Its not an economic system, its an identifier of who people are who have money. The import of Gardners images from Antietam stretched far beyond the fall of 1862. Much has been written lately 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. Heather: My theory You can still enjoy your subscription until the end of your current billing period. sentiment, misogyny. "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. Weve taken it Education, the way the Birchers organized was literally by going out and talking to narrative that was not rooted in reality. somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. The current-day Republicans, since the Reagan Michael: Im Michael Tomasky, editor of The New 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. 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). by APM. her about this or that aspect of modern politics, she would give of course an Office History Department, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, 161 Presidents Dr., Amherst, MA 01003-9312; fax: 413-545-6137. Major Publications:Richardson is the author ofThe Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901, (Harvard University Press, 2001), A main selection of the History Book Club;The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republic Economic Policies during the Civil War, (Harvard University Press, 1997).Richardson is the co-editor with Sidney Andrews ofThe South Since the War, (Louisiana State University Press, 2004).Works in progress include:Race, Riots, and Rodeos: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War, 1865- 1901. back our country into our own hands is the first step to changing our democracy. Im the voice of what I attract that famous suburban woman, which is articles in newspapers, and everybodys saying, Hey, She often falls asleep face down on her desk for an hour around 11 p.m. before getting . Writing. 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