Historian

Heather Cox Richardson

Professor of history at Boston College. Author of Letters from an American Substack, the most-subscribed newsletter on the platform. Specialist in American political history and the Republican Party.

Known For

Letters from an AmericanHow the South Won the Civil War

Episodes

#Pivot Extra: America at 250 — with Heather Cox RichardsonOct 18, 2026 #The Week: SpaceX, Iran, and the World's First TrillionaireJun 19, 2026 #America at 250 — with Heather Cox RichardsonJun 18, 2026 #Grading America's First 250 Years: America, Actually with Astead HerndonMay 26, 2026 #Heather Cox Richardson on How Democracies DieSep 25, 2024