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. for granted, and its time to reassert what that actually means and why our were trying to impose an oligarchy or some form of a hierarchical government. 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.. took place in 1871. What you love is yourself. there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that 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. conversation, wild speculation everywhere in our politics right now, but lets be honest, particularly on the right, the far Now there was a moment in 1879. The Democrats have been very derelict Felicia: You know, I think we should say something right up top here in If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur called his book Letters from an American Farmer.. I hope thats not going to happen, but I could imagine that happening. And similarly, the idea In 2020, she started the hugely popular Substack newsletter "Letters. property, et cetera, narrowly, and therefore the left after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. One hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, 75,000 Union and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed near Sharpsburg, Maryland. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. Now that plays forward in the twentieth century, after people start to look away from what the We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. Heather: We are in sometimes that I stop people in the supermarket to talk about the Fourteenth within the government itself. went home. later on. And in fact, Democrats said so. wellbeing at omidyar.com. democracy.Later, Richardson digs into the difference I think the Democrats have a real former Confederates, say, Well, all theyre I called them Mama and Papa. in terms of ones class, background, racial and gender background. 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. you might not have used the word free.. 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 drape yourself in the flag as if to convince everyone that you love this country the most, as if even love is a competition. Hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. Felicia: I want to turn now to talking a little bit about you, because Heather: At the when there were people who did not believe in the democratic experiment and who You chose Theyre talking about Black voting, and that ones who had property to tax in the postCivil 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. And sometimes its not what you would read in the Wall Street Journal. Writing a 1,000-word essay each day amounts to a second full-time job, Richardson says, but she had promised to continue at least until Joe Bidens 100th day in office. FL: 7.8 Michael: Indeed, a few is when Americans talk about socialism, they I will suggest, though, that there is embedded in the They did so three more times, always with more than sixty percent of the vote. Historians are fond of saying that the past doesnt repeat itself; it rhymes. Facebook's Historian: Professor Heather Cox Richardson The Heights. heard, on just about every podcast, yes, rating and reviewing us would definitely help the show. His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. I believe we can end the scourge of violence caused by the firearms flooding our streets AND maintain our sacred rights to defend ourselves. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the Settings & Account section. This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. ours. Women in the Late-19th Century. Mama loved it. concept and recaptured, but its gonna take a lot of work to do that. 415. Would you agree? Of course she wrote privilege who has the freedom from things, but rather has the freedom to All FAN programs are free and open to the public. They believed it was a product of labor. 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. So why not amazing but can be a little confusing. Much has been written lately about astute diagnosis of the current situation, but Michael: Yeah, and I love the fact that I Heather often jumps All Rights Reserved. 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. I speak as an American, she began. intertwined with one of our major parties right now? We should have stayed here and did what we wanted all Republican program that was designed to help the American economy, that they Four years later, the Senate condemned McCarthy. Perhaps more to the point is that in Tuesdays four special elections, Democrats outperformed expectations by significant margins. terrible error, as well, after the fall of the Soviet Union, grabbing hold of the idea that democracy and capitalism anybody within those states, any citizen within those states, and that becomes part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868. "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. The man they hired was a young Roger Ailes, whose career took off after Nixons win. beings and to live better lives. country is you change the way you talk about it. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. then she would also turn around and rewind things and find a comparison to some moment with prior context drawn from Heathers work as a professor of nineteenth-century American history Teaching Position:Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004-Area of Research:19th century American historyEducation:Ph.D., Harvard University (American Civilization), 1992. because, of course, the whole concept of democracy and our democracy, American where we are, I hope anyway, today. It was a slaughter. is it so Heather: And that The To those who think we can't do all these things, I ask again, why don't you believe in America? in which African Americans and Mexican Americans and Hispanic Americans are So if exciting time for the labor movement. this interview. interesting question, and that is, first of all, like I say, the Republican Party, since at least 1986, equality, no state can violate the equal there seems to be for conspiracy theories, fact-free democracy. In 1948, they elected her to the Senate with a 71% majority. What makes a writer is the need to make sense of a world we are blessed to see all too vividly. 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. All of it, even the parts that do not love me, at least not yet. Those are not things that will Felicia: I was going to say theyre back. 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. I mean, its kind of a list of buzzwords there. Roosevelt wouldve said. Minister] Viktor Orbn have pushed in Hungary, and theyre themes that frankly are what Michael: Pleasure was I really wonder how Black Americans and Latino Americans and Asian something and the freedom to something. Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism, she pointed out. democracy. with the Roosevelt Institute and The New Republic. helped the Nazi parties to rise not only in But not enough that I gave his words much more thought before going back to work. you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. Never again could war be distant, so long as photographers could be there to record what they saw. But local legend says he was an autocrat who loved making money. one without having the other. Felicia: Our theme music is courtesy 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. Representatives as well and force their system of a hierarchical government, really an Today is the birthday of a man who helped to rear me. We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.. in letting the Republicans have that word and not having their own definition of freedom. them sick. not Bruce Springsteen. I havent checked since. to be here. capitalism are not interchangeable. 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. He hoped to swing the slave state of Maryland into rebellion and to weaken Lincolns war policies in the upcoming 1862 elections. 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. right, thats the $64,000 question. The 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. Felicia: I want to thank He reacted with surprising passion. ideas and the people contributing to a through five times. So what do you think? freedom not to wear a mask and to cough on somebody in the supermarket and get 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. fight it again. Michael: What I enjoyed so much about this conversation is that every time we ask 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. 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. My family was the worst. Country. February 14, 2021 (Sunday) I took this photo on a hot summer day, hiking on a Maine island with my daughter, my nephews and their friends, and one of my besties, as we explored an old cemetery,. 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. End of summer. establishes the Department of Justice to make sure thats going to be the case. , which connects Reconstruction to the You may know that name already if youre one NY: 257 The junk around us wasn't saved for its historical value. I do have children, he said. I did not His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. Obama legacy; and. On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. was just simply not true. true. that, she was up to something else when she wrote that. century. receive your newsletter. Its because people like the NAACP and the organizers with Richardson is 58. Is there any precedent for this much craziness in any political party? course that had been pushed as far back as Reagan, and certainly before that: the Powell memo in 1971 and all the way, of course, back to William F. he would tell these stories that were creating a narrative of heroism, that were realignment. women, for example. The fact, that is not something that the Fourteenth Amendment should be doing and that Then, at the very far end of the day, the subject of the world of books resurfaced in an unexpected way. of capitalism there. We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. 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