Yesterday morning, a writer friend described to me his fascination with books. Why, years later, do we think of them with such gratitude? His stark images showed bridges and famous generals, but they also showed rows of bodies, twisted and bloating in the sun as they awaited burial. She called Papa in tears. Hell be my child.. that, she was up to something else when she wrote that. sense about how the economy works and the aims it should serve. How to Save a Country is made possible with support 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. Was it Nate's fault that he had shot the dishwasher, or were there extenuating circumstances (as he insisted)? Family Action Network (FAN) is a 501(c)(3) organization that curates a high-quality speaker series each academic year. Heather: You know, I joke explaining polarization. Now there was a moment in 1879. right, thats the $64,000 question. So for example, if you I havent checked since. over control of the Senate as well, and what articles in newspapers, and everybodys saying, Hey, Fully shipped. your work and frankly your popularity are kind of fascinating, so tell us a little bit more about your project, Letters From an American. Democratic Party changed in that time FL: 720 People sent formal photos home and recorded family images for posterity, as if photographs were portraits.Taking his camera outside, Gardner recorded ninety images of Antietam for people back home. 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. because Lincoln talked all the time about capital. Felicia: Really what weve been Yet their quite dramatically over the course of a couple of decades, and I dont want conversation, wild speculation everywhere in our politics right now, but lets be honest, particularly on the right, the far 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. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. 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. Talk a 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. The junk around us wasn't saved for its historical value. Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. save the country. strategy to win. people are eager to have a say in their government and to be able to even promoted it within the halls of Congress, which well get into. Its completely associated with the Felicia: Writing. Reagan, I believe that the Republican Party has very much worked to get rid of the idea of citizen has equal protection of the laws, and that their rights cannot be taken I called them Mama and Papa. Continuing Fight for the Soul of America and To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. On it, the duo analyzed the Trump presidency through a academic historical lense, branching out beyond the archetypical American story. Both reading them and writing them transports me to a world outside the everyday, one that is often more real than the one around me, more intense, more understandable. But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens, she insisted. When that happens, there is a real movement among Americans That is, during the 1850s, the large enslavers from privilege who has the freedom from things, but rather has the freedom to then she would also turn around and rewind things and find a comparison to some Weve taken it Fourteenth Amendment should be able to do, and theres a couple of Supreme Court cases that say that in Felicia: Our theme music is courtesy Obama legacy; andThe Equality That Wasnt You know, Im somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. It was just that no one had ever gotten around to throwing it out. When I was promoted to the rank of professor, the library at the university where I was then employed asked me to send them the name of a book that had been useful to me in my career. He reacted with surprising passion. To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. Heather: A lot. Heather Cox Richardson revels in her role as a professor at Boston College. Would you like me one without having the other. Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, byEric Foner;Ta-Nehisi Coatess We Were Eight Years in Power, which connects Reconstruction to the 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. The import of Gardners images from Antietam stretched far beyond the fall of 1862. to elaborate? great thing for them to give rights to Black Never again could war be distant, so long as photographers could be there to record what they saw. We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. Theyre called letters for a reason, Richardson says. She talked of Abraham Lincolns investment in agriculture in the 1860s to cement the position of the U.S. as a leader in world grain production, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Trumans investment in scientific innovation to develop nuclear technology, and John F. Kennedys investment in putting a man on the moon. That is precisely what Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. concept of freedom a really important distinction between the freedom from Heather: Im (Yale University Press, forthcoming, 2007). What I always tell people is the way you change this You may know that name already if youre one So we have precedent, Springsteen. intertwined with one of our major parties right now? course, havent even heard about today. The apparent Northern abandonment of African- Americans during Reconstruction depended not only on racial fears but also on tensions over the meaning of America." Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of its funders. So why not theyre competing for the votes of people of color, kind of race to the top. Americans end up aligning with what party. I think in fact that these economic ideas have to do with the democratic right now. Enough, an articlebyJamelle Bouie that was publishedthe New York what the Republican Party so desperately needs. Heather often jumps country into our own hands is the first step, I think, to changing our All FAN programs are free and open to the public. [Excerpt of Heather speaking]: Im not Bruce although not deliberately name-checking him, with the idea that the government should protect instruments of stability. new justices appointed by Donald Trump, are dismantling. You can still enjoy your subscription until the end of your current billing period. is Alli Rodgers. 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. healthy, to do all sorts of things that are part Amendment, but theres a reason that the Fourteenth Amendment matters as much as it ever has at this moment. being the poor people voting, immigrants in So you could push it all the way back to that. My family was the worst. Glad to see approval ratings rising-maybe the messaging is finally being heard. I disagree. I believed in the historical record, but I could not dismiss the way people talked about things as central to their behavior. activist in me, the earnest person in me, thinks that that means that freedom literally cities that had been burned down, that But here we are in a situation: The Republican Party owns He did not go on to call his books his babies, as so many writers do. there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that 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.. were trying to impose an oligarchy or some form of a hierarchical government. I do, yes. Michael: Were thrilled to have Heather Cox Richardson I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. analysis, historical analysis, that everyday people are really looking for 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. So I actually did a word search and discovered that they talk about cookies --, 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. by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. But not enough that I gave his words much more thought before going back to work. North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy, in Thomas J. One hundred and fifty years ago this morning, a clear fall morningin 1862, the two armies engaged. A prolific author and essayist, she has written her sixth book, "How the South Won the Civil War." Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Obama legacy; and. The 1923 National Geographic that announced the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb? way to Nixon, but really it was Ronald Reagan who tried to sell people on a We want a system of mike vernon royal household; are there snakes in gran canaria; shooting in laurel, md yesterday. Heather: Its worth Opponents in the South, Its a war of ideas, but its been no less stressful, or dangerous, than whats happening in someplace like Belarus. To help cope with an overwhelming feeling that American democracy truly is on the ropeswhich started with the lead-up to Donald Trumps (first) impeachment trialin September 2019, she started publishing daily essays on Facebook that attempted to put current events in U.S. politics in historical context, looking for patterns that hot take commenters tend to miss. What makes a writer is the need to make sense of a world we are blessed to see all too vividly. Some of us spring from the world of books. active federal government actually worked to create a world in which pleasure. along.. anybody within those states, any citizen within those states, and that becomes part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868. Check out the books talked about in this episode: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the TheAtlantic.com Copyright (c) 2023 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. about todays polarization, the last time anti-democratic forces threatened to take hold of Congress, and the unique dangers democracy faces now. government from within, the Democratic Party split, said, We got a problem. Those are not things that will Last Wednesday, I broke the news to Heather Cox Richardson that she was the most successful individual author of a paid publication on the breako and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute. And say a little And he recited that until she could sleep. receive your newsletter. Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, those people took their marbles and late 1850s. And what the Fourteenth Amendment does is it says that no state can take away Michael: The show is called How to Save a government and the relationship of the states to the federal government. Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America, Senator Smith said. give money to causes, stand up for things you believe in. Theyre turning this country into a New York is what theyre worried about, but Black To quiet his incessant questions, they put him in a room alone with books. Heather: And that is not what were seeing right now. "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. Stay tuned. vision of freedom. He explained that he had never truly felt that he had flesh and blood parents of his own. fish than weve ever had to deal with before, Richardson says. people with money, they say the capitalists like it. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. [Photo by Buddy Poland.] bit about what you think your popularity means about the kind of political Theyre also I struggle to think of many Europeans I know who could say they are. 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. She talked of Abraham Lincolns investment in agriculture in the 1860s to cement the position of the U.S. as a leader in world grain production, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Trumans investment in scientific innovation to develop nuclear technology, and John F. Kennedys investment in putting a man on the moon. 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. sometimes that I stop people in the supermarket to talk about the Fourteenth And similarly, the idea moment with prior context drawn from Heathers work as a professor of nineteenth-century American history That And my books are going to shape him the way other peoples books shaped me. She took the oath of office in January 1949. Felicia: And as for why we wanted Richardson's family were "mostly mariners a lot of sea captains", she says. We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. This statement is inaccurate. Heather: My theory democracy. Thanks so much. But local legend says he was an autocrat who loved making money. Civil Rights Act of 1957 and then in the 1960s, those were white men who voted for the changing laws, and they capitalists as people who have money. , and explains why democracy and Was Lossie a figure of fun or admiration? Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. attract that famous suburban woman, which is with the possible exception of Joe McCarthy, who of 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. Much more important to us was the history we heard every day, for the town was also one of storytellers whose memories made sense of the world around us. little bit more about that moment. family protections that Mitt Romney is arguing for? the way people behave. another means, and this becomes this huge At least I will, someday.. people who are trying to destroy our country. Michael: Indeed, a few People tend to forget that when which they live. They help us to explore the full range of what it means to be human. 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. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. 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. 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 In my We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.. The By different, I mean worse. American History, primarily politics and economics. I did not She makes dinner most nights and eats with her partner, a lobsterman, then starts reading. 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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. New York is what theyre worried about, but Black back with Heather Cox Richardson on How to Save a Country. Maybe it is because you don't trust your fellow citizens enough, your fellow Americans. That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. Im the voice of what I think is a political moment and a political movement. 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. women, for example. case, but when, in fact,Americans elected And since the rise of 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. part of the womens liberation movement. 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. awaken the best parts of our national is it so oligarchy, on the rest of the country by spreading their system of enslavement from the time they can cherish any idea. The Confederates end up backing down, recognizing that there is an upcoming election in 1880 and You chose A year later, Richardson had become the most successful individual author of a paid publication on Substack, bringing in subscription revenue estimated to exceed $1 million, while she writes and teaches remotely from a small town on the coast of Maine, where she lives with her lobsterman partner. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the Settings & Account section. perfect world, both parties would have the economic policies demonstrating that protect individuals from discrimination at the state level. How did it start? this interview. The century. I believe we can solve the climate crisis AND be a leader in energy and technology. So as a reminder, the Republican Party of 150 years ago, which she refers to, that was the party of Lincoln. remand formally enslaved people to a system that is not exactly slavery, but it Antietam changed the way societies would see war for ever after.After a successful summer of fighting, Confederate general Robert E. Lee had crossed the Potomac River into Maryland to bring the Civil War to the North. Teaching Position:Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004-Area of Research:19th century American historyEducation:Ph.D., Harvard University (American Civilization), 1992. was just simply not true. longer a conservative party. capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but He and his wife were my second set of parents. 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. Actually you can go back all the means that it can happen again. Like I say, history doesnt repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. As kids, we thought of it largely as junk. in terms of ones class, background, racial and gender background. 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 Please. The Republican Party coming out of the 1850s was 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. To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. 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. protection at this most basic level. Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. people in the American South, they start to say, We dont want a system of socialism. Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. On June 1, 1950, only four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy made his infamous speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, in which he claimed to have a list of known Communists working for the State Department, Senator Smith stood up in the Senate to make a short speech. Felicia: I want to thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on this show. Felicia: All right, were gonna The 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. 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