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 ...

Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She writes widely about Reconstruction, the Civil War, and the history of the Republican Party. The author of Democracy Awakening, her ...

The author of “Democracy Awakening” and a popular politics newsletter makes a powerful case for studying the past. By Elisabeth Egan When Heather Cox Richardson was an undergraduate at Harvard, she ...

As someone whose scholarly writings have explored the impact and legacy of the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower, among others, Professor of History Heather ...

"The Massachusetts Governor's Awards in the Humanities recognize individuals for their public actions, grounded in an appreciation of the humanities, to enhance civic life in the Commonwealth. Each ...

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Heather Cox Richardson is one of the most popular historians in the U.S., boasting more than 3.2 million Facebook followers and 2.5 million Substack subscribers, making her the most-subscribed ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor for the History Department in the Boston College with 10 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2012 Forum. The ...