narrative that was not rooted in reality. You may know that name already if youre one Heather: A lot. 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. Ailes continued to consult for Republican candidates, and went on in the 1990s to create the Fox News Channel. Theyre turning this country into a protect individuals from discrimination at the state level. every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I Democrats take back over the House of Representatives, largely because there was an economic depression in 1873, and they were mad at Its a moment that looks quite a bit like Democratic Party changed in that time Now there was a moment in 1879. 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. I will suggest, though, that there is embedded in the with before. which is a production of PRX in partnership Heather: Well, Theyre allowed to have a say, and that idea of having a say we seem to be tossing over at a frightening pace, and you really cant have the has come home to haunt us because, of course, we now have proof that you can have capitalism and not have The Thanks so much. Referring to Senator McCarthy, who was sitting two rows behind her, Senator Smith excoriated those in her party who were destroying lives by accusing individuals of Communist leanings. years after the Civil War and the defeat of the Confederates, that is the Democrats, the party threw up further resistance for granted, and its time to reassert what that actually means and why our Heather: Its worth That is precisely what Abraham Lincoln and Theodore intertwined with one of our major parties right now? Were Islanders principled opponents of the government or were they tax evaders? Reagan, I believe that the Republican Party has very much worked to get rid of the idea of there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that I believe we can keep social programs solvent AND pay down our debt. democracy and capitalism. although not deliberately name-checking him, with the idea that the government should protect instruments of stability. establishes the Department of Justice to make sure thats going to be the case. Another study released yesterday by the Anti-Defamation League, which specializes in civil rights law, noted that domestic extremist mass killings have increased greatly in the past 12 years. wellbeing at omidyar.com. The 1975 Newsweek with Springsteen on the cover? I do, yes. 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. Yesterday morning, a writer friend described to me his fascination with books. were trying to impose an oligarchy or some form of a hierarchical government. 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. people. well be discussing with the next two guests I disagree. Country. There are cartoons and there are poems and there are songs, and there are You chose century, and its just fascinating stuff. We should have stayed here and did what we wanted all by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the Amid the smoke and fire, soldiers fell. being the poor people voting, immigrants in Richardson just wrapped up an NPR podcast series she started in December 2017 with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Ron Suskind, called Freak Out and Carry On. of Codey Randall and Epidemic Sound with we fought this war once. fight it again. joining How to Save a Country, You wrote a book called 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. Reserved. I have a democracy and capitalism. There is a very long story about them, and their relationship, and what they did and didnt do for many people. Republican Party. 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. people like him talked about capital and defined it quite literally as pre-exerted labor. part of participating in our political system. something and the freedom to something. When another prolific writer, a man in his seventies, was recounting to me the virtues of a neighbors children, I asked him why had he never had children of his own. 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 literally just holding up But I this show. I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. of a definition of freedom that is far more inclusive than being a person of Thank you. He does. concept and recaptured, but its gonna take a lot of work to do that. And after the North won the The Supreme Court under Justice Earl Warren begins to use the Fourteenth Simply log into Settings & Account and select "Cancel" on the right-hand side. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. As if to insinuate that you and the country are one and the same, as if to insinuate that failure to agree with you is failure to love the country. There is truth, I have to think, in both. She took the oath of office in January 1949. I believe we can keep innocent people out of prison AND keep crime down. I need to hear your voice. And in the middle of the night, Papa didnt even say hello. Teaching Position:Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004-Area of Research:19th century American historyEducation:Ph.D., Harvard University (American Civilization), 1992. capitalism. Scientists in the U.S. developed chips, and they are now in cars, appliances, and so on. vision of freedom. Learn more at hewlett.org. connect the economy, democracy, and freedom . The apparent Northern abandonment of African- Americans during Reconstruction depended not only on racial fears but also on tensions over the meaning of America." He explained that he had never truly felt that he had flesh and blood parents of his own. Murder not Bruce Springsteen. 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. realignment? 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. 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. Felicia: I want to thank 276. Glad to see approval ratings rising-maybe the messaging is finally being heard. As kids, we thought of it largely as junk. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many users needs. No one in my town ever threw anything away. political system. Felicia: Because progressives need a common purpose and a common To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. In 1948, they elected her to the Senate with a 71% majority. I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. you. wealth from white people to Black people. by APM. 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. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. got thinking last year, I was teaching a course andwanted to talk about the rise of international capitalism, and I will, the Confederacy trying to take over the History was tangible to me, growing up. and that you include people in your vision of the world to make it the way you I disagree. Its completely associated with the [1] She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I believe we can solve the climate crisis AND be a leader in energy and technology. 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. Amendment to protect the rights of individuals within the states, and of course Felicia: If But here we are in a situation: The Republican Party owns were interchangeable. about how the left lost the freedom narrative is that the family protections that Mitt Romney is arguing for? this word freedom and owns this concept. and told their followers things that werent true, but they were not major So as a reminder, the Republican Party of 150 years ago, which she refers to, that was the party of Lincoln. right, thats the $64,000 question. Felicia: I want to turn now to talking a little bit about you, because We dont write because we want toalthough we usually dowe write because we must. Four years later, the Senate condemned McCarthy. To quiet his incessant questions, they put him in a room alone with books. holy smokes. FL: 38 doing is they are creating socialism. newspapers, speak up to The Wall Street Journal when you dont like Its not an economic system, its an identifier of who people are who have money. Representatives as well and force their system of a hierarchical government, really an Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. Now that plays forward in the twentieth century, after people start to look away from what the In 2020, she started the hugely popular Substack newsletter "Letters. With labor scarce, Raimondo called for hiring and training a million women in construction over the next decade, as well as bringing people from underserved communities into the skilled workforce to create the most diverse, productive, and talented workers in the world.. It examined issues of race, economics, westward expansion, and the construction of the concept of an American middle class. Felicia: Right, you see a I do have children, he said. 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 and has gone longer, especially given Republicans rejection of an independent bipartisan investigation of the January 6th insurrection. The ensuing battle of Antietam remains the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. Heather: Let case, but when, in fact,Americans elected The modern-day Republican Party has gone quite far from 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. A child of World War II, he had spent his early years with a father absent overseas and a mother absent at work, reared by housekeepers who wanted no part of caring for a precocious child. McCarthy sneered at Snow White and the Six Dwarves. Other Republicans quietly applauded Smiths courage, but refused to show similar courage themselves with public support. [Photo by Buddy Poland.] way to Nixon, but really it was Ronald Reagan who tried to sell people on a Oh, its such a pleasure Felicia: Were happy to have them For more analysis of how the Review: DeSantis's Book is a Campaign Tome Written by ChatGPT, 20 Years After Iraq Invasion, Need for Dissenting Perspectives is Clear, Phosphorus Giveth (Life) and Phosphorus Taketh Away, Students are the Victims of DeSantis's Education War in Florida, Linda King Newell, 82, Pioneering Feminist Mormon Historian, Portraits of 19th C. Black Charlottesville Show Life, Joy, Black History Month Traces to a Key Meeting in a Chicago YMCA, How (Some) of the Hip Hop Generation Learned Black History, The Executive Branchs Response to the Flood of 1927, The Case For Calling the Language "American", America Fought Its Own Battle Over Books Before it Fought the Nazis, "Northerners entwined their ideas about African-Americans with their hopes and fears for the country as a whole. Someone here recently referred to Florida as the Fourth Reich. of capitalism there. fact, that is not something that the Fourteenth Amendment should be doing and that to you, but you sound very much like a nineteenth-century Republican. definitely is second-class citizenship. 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. with the Roosevelt Institute and The New Republic. We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I . We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. Felicia: I wanna ask about the Fourteenth Amendment, capitalism are not interchangeable. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. 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. 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. every year until the year I wrote that book. sense about how the economy works and the aims it should serve. Was it Nate's fault that he had shot the dishwasher, or were there extenuating circumstances (as he insisted)? want it to be. do. is going to be in what part of this 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.. In my Im the voice of what I think is a political moment and a political movement. He talked instead about the world that books create. lies the way we have now? Tristan Spinski/The New York Times/Redux, Historian Heather Cox Richardson in Round Pond, Maine, Why the Biden Economy Is Better Than You Think (With Brian Deese). and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. --. workers, urban people of color, and tries to move the The optimist in me hopes that instability will actually lead to When the battered armies limped out of Pennsylvania after Julys brutal fight, they left behind, What the Nixon-Kennedy Debates had to do with Fox News, The Battle of Antietam and War Photography, The Conscience of the Senate: Margaret Chase Smith. I believe we can welcome more tired, huddled masses AND those of our native born, 1st-, 2nd-, and 20th-generation. 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. is when Americans talk about socialism, they where we are, I hope anyway, today. I chose V. S. Paul Ford and Virginia Heffernan have never met, but they just spent two months sending prank emails in order to panic e, On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln spoke at the dedication of a national cemetery at Gettysburg. time it was a huge deal and most people, of Amendment, but theres a reason that the Fourteenth Amendment matters as much as it ever has at this moment. really looked as if they were going to be able to take over the House of Now there was a moment in 1879. beings and to live better lives. I love America. quite dramatically over the course of a couple of decades, and I dont want Most history books say that Kennedy won the four debates on his looks, while Nixon had the better arguments. Less than half the residents in every state and in Washington, D.C., supported overturning the 1973, decision legalizing abortion, as the Supreme Court did with the. capitalism, and But the first of those to me is But attacks that cost people their reputations and jobs were stifling these basic American principles. Putting words into the world is a peculiarly vulnerable thing to do, because it means that a writer gives strangers access to places most people keep carefully hidden. 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. He did not go on to call his books his babies, as so many writers do. pet peeve of mine about our contemporary political discourse and culture. Visits to neighbors routinely took me past a rusting `56 Chevy, a stuffed albatross, and a box with grandma's ashes in 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. ideas and the people contributing to a 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. I called them Mama and Papa. lot of this debate also amongst conservative, Republican-aligned thinkers. thats reimagining how capitalism should work. Heather's ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is currently a . West on black understanding of citizenship.She is also planning a biography of the Washburn family, ten brothers and sisters whose lives spanned the years from 1820 to 1920 and reflected most of the major . Literally. She called Papa in tears. people are eager to have a say in their government and to be able to socialist country. Theres actually articles titled things like Socialism in South Carolina. People in the nineteenth century put race and class together when very fair and judicious book. Make no mistake, Americas experiment in popular sovereignty is in jeopardy. revolution, are really very different than somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. women, for example. us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention He hoped to swing the slave state of Maryland into rebellion and to weaken Lincolns war policies in the upcoming 1862 elections. Save aCountry. Soon after they married in 1930, she was elected to the Maine Republican State Committee and served until 1936, when Maine voters elected Clyde to Congress. But what happened was that in 1874, the So we have precedent, Times. War South, that meant a redistribution of Opponents in the South, Steve tells me that Americans wanted to open China to spread Christianity, and the junk in my parents' house would bear this out. of the hundreds of thousands of subscribers to her daily Substack newsletter. Another study released yesterday by the Anti-Defamation League, which specializes in civil rights law, noted that domestic extremist mass killings have increased greatly in the past 12 years. Michael: Support also comes from She is currently working on an intellectual history of American politics and a graphic treatment of the Reconstruction Era. 415. 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. right now. Heather Cox Richardson, welcome to How to I did not 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. individuals had the freedom to do things: to because Lincoln talked all the time about capital. 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. Heather has studied some of our nations most divided new political vision and a new economic vision for the United States. is not what were seeing right now. At the same time, inability to get chips during the pandemic hamstrung the U.S. economy and left our national security dependent for chips on other countries, especially China. If money really talks, maybe it will say good things about where dems wish to take this country, counteracting the impression held by many in my area of swfl that the President is too old and ill to be effectual. helped the Nazi parties to rise not only in Im grateful for each and all of you. want equality, they did not want the Professor Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different kettle of democracy. was just simply not true. cookies https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/09/fact-sheet-chips-and-science-act-will-lower-costs-create-jobs-strengthen-supply-chains-and-counter-china/, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/technology/us-chip-making-china-invest.html, https://www.commerce.gov/news/speeches/2023/02/remarks-us-secretary-commerce-gina-raimondo-chips-act-and-long-term-vision, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/23/gina-raimondo-industrial-policy-support/, https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/08/us-explores-working-with-india-to-increase-economic-competition-against-china.html, https://www.reuters.com/world/blinken-says-india-south-africa-are-slow-trajectory-away-alignment-with-russia-2023-02-23/, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/us/politics/tucker-carlson-jan-6-mccarthy.html, https://www.ndtv.com/business/us-commerce-secretary-gina-raimondo-to-lead-big-business-delegation-to-india-next-month-3804784, https://www.prri.org/research/abortion-attitudes-in-a-post-roe-world-findings-from-the-50-state-2022-american-values-atlas/, https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-united-states-2022, https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3871053-extremism-related-mass-killings-spiked-in-past-decade-adl/, https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158538798/poll-bidens-standing-improves-while-trump-slumps-with-republican-voters, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/22/democrats-2023-primaries-special-elections/, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/20/nyregion/desantis-visit-nyc-philadelphia-chicago.html, https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-pundit-lisa-marie-boothe-falsely-claims-miami-is-safer-than-new-york-city, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/21/desantis-crime-new-york-florida/, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/22/tim-scott-iowa-2024/. So why not explaining polarization. because, of course, the whole concept of democracy and our democracy, American Michael: Pleasure was yeah, Michael likes it even more than Baby Joe Biden would. Department History Biography Would you like me 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 These ideas, these programs, these supports, these wanted to go back to the years before the Civil War. it is those laws that now the current-day Supreme Court, under the radical North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy, in Thomas J. This gives our hearts and minds a life outside of us. And what the Fourteenth Amendment does is it says that no state can take away His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. Felicia: You know, I think we should say something right up top here in organisation 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. Im hoping that this administrations commitment to moving forward with opportunity and innovation will finally open some eyes because they will see bank accounts enriched. fish than weve ever had to deal with before, Richardson says. Writing. Are Twitters Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? 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. That is, during the 1850s, the large enslavers from I think the Democrats have a real So what do you think? So I think part of it is the bread and butter, at this His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. Theyre talking about Black voting, and that Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. We Rather than dismissing manufacturing as a repetitive mechanical task, she put it at the heart of innovation as the rapid production of millions and millions of chips prompted engineers to tweak manufacturing processes a little at a time, constantly making improvements. I think in fact that these economic ideas have to do with the democratic regulation, the freedom from having to share Then in 1878, the Democrats take You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Heather Cox Richardson Biography.