On April 1, 2025, Heather Cox Richardson, the author of the politically left-leaning Substack "Letters from an American" and a history professor at Boston College, posted (archived) on Facebook that ...

The Republican revolt that led to Kevin McCarthy's ouster as House speaker this week has no precedent. And what happens next is unclear. So what does history suggest about the current state of the U.S ...

Heather Cox Richardson on challenges to democracy in America ABC News' Linsey Davis spoke with author and history professor Heather Cox Richardson about current threats to democracy and her new book, ...

We sit down with Heather Cox Richardson, the BC history professor whose smash newsletter Letters from an American has made her one of the country’s leading public intellectuals. Three years ago, ...

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