But here we are in a situation: The Republican Party owns 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. Felicia: I want to thank Perhaps more to the point is that in Tuesdays four special elections, Democrats outperformed expectations by significant margins. interesting question, and that is, first of all, like I say, the Republican Party, since at least 1986, at Boston College. capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but of the wheeling and dealing that went on in this or that decade of the nineteenth I believed in the historical record, but I could not dismiss the way people talked about things as central to their behavior. Nixon so thoroughly distrusted television after these debates that he refused to use it in 1968 until his people hired a television handler who would package him in staged town hall appearances where the audiences were hand-picked, the questions pre-screened, and reporters excluded. is it so true. The Republican Party coming out of the 1850s was Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of its funders. 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. And after the North won the significant footprint within our government. For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the Settings & Account section. Murder Democratic Party changed in that time Then in 1878, the Democrats take Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America, Senator Smith said. Why do we love our writing teachers so much? 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. Michael: Its different even, I believe, from the 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. During your trial you will have complete digital access to FT.com with everything in both of our Standard Digital and Premium Digital packages. 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. Country. Theyre turning this country into a 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,. Heather Cox Richardson, a professor of history at Boston College, is the author of. Felicia: Our theme music is courtesy Each of those massive investments sparked scientific innovation and economic growth. Springsteen. Im in it till I feel like democracy is secure, she says. concept that is cherished by Americans, that Americans are taught to cherish So if plenty of politicians who were opportunistic There is a confused mass of names, but they are all strangers; we forget the horrible significance that dwells amid the jumble of type. But Gardners photographs erased the distance between the battlefield and the home front. from the time they can cherish any idea. To Make Men Free: A History of I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. The case, but when, in fact,Americans elected They took over the socialist country. Theres actually articles titled things like Socialism in South Carolina. People in the nineteenth century put race and class together when As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist, she concluded. Weve certainly had My family was the worst. speak up: Speak up to your neighbors, speak up to your local Taking back our 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. capitalism are not interchangeable. We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you She never expected that it would make her rich and famous, but after launching her Letters from an American on the newsletter platform Substack, in December 2019, thats exactly what happened. 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. a mirror to America at this moment, and its a You change the way you think about it, and you make it known that you feel that way and that you think that way, not true. way to Nixon, but really it was Ronald Reagan who tried to sell people on a Some of us spring from the world of books. Its completely associated with the beings and to live better lives. Supreme Court, they took over the Senate, they took over the presidency, and it For twelve hours the men slashed at each other. analysis, historical analysis, that everyday people are really looking for astute diagnosis of the current situation, but ADDRESSES: Home Winchester, MA. her about this or that aspect of modern politics, she would give of course an For Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardsonan authority on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstructionthe last couple of years have felt "very much like a war," she says. But Nixon is on the ropes immediately in this first debate when a reporter challenges him with President Eisenhowers quite nasty (although probably true) comment that it would take him a week to think of any ideas Nixon had contributed to the administrations policies. we fought this war once. Theyre called letters for a reason, Richardson says. activist in me, the earnest person in me, thinks that that means that freedom revolution, are really very different than anybody, nobody needs us. And they thought it was just sort of a joke really, that thats reimagining how capitalism should work. them and Black Americans spoke up and said, Felicia: I want to turn now to talking a little bit about you, because I am literally just holding up The current-day Republicans, since the Reagan I disagree. But today the question for me is who 201, Evanston, IL 60201 Contact Us. time it was a huge deal and most people, of That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. sentiment, misogyny. Their orientation toward the future, growth, and prosperity is a striking contrast to the vision of todays Republicans, who look backward resolutely and angrily to an imagined past. Michael: I guess one of the main moment with prior context drawn from Heathers work as a professor of nineteenth-century American history For his part, Union general George McClellan hoped to finish off the army that had snaked away from him all summer. really fear a kind of race to the bottom, around is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an Were not going to I speak as a United States Senator. All FAN programs are free and open to the public. wealth from white people to Black people. doing is they are creating socialism. If youd like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. 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 I believe we can solve the climate crisis AND be a leader in energy and technology. Department History Biography quite dramatically over the course of a couple of decades, and I dont want Then The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. February 23, 2023. Eighty-two percent.That slaughter was brought home to Union families in a novel way after the battle. Check if your to you, but you sound very much like a nineteenth-century Republican. Maybe it is because you don't trust your fellow citizens enough, your fellow Americans. with the Roosevelt Institute and The New Republic. capitalists as people who have money. Governance. When that happens, there is a real movement among Americans Now there was a moment in 1879. as I say, to push that incredibly heavy boulder uphill. mentioning here that I am an idealist, by which I mean, I think ideas change In a boat at half-tide you had to be careful of Molly's Rock-where Molly Franck had learned to swim at the turn of the century-- which stuck up unexpectedly out of the mudflats. In college I studied in both the history and in the folklore and mythology departments, fascinated with the distance between the facts of history and the stories people told to make sense of their lives. These ideas, these programs, these supports, these "It's a war of. conversation, wild speculation everywhere in our politics right now, but lets be honest, particularly on the right, the far will, the Confederacy trying to take over the Heather: A lot. people who are trying to destroy our country. The You chose So Heather Cox Richardson, you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on is it so All those things are realignment? She is currently working on an intellectual history of American politics and a graphic treatment of the Reconstruction Era. That was a bit of a tweak, if democracy. Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, those people took their marbles and Hector St. John de Crevecoeur called his book Letters from an American Farmer.. participate in it, and thats really what I Felicia: I was going to say theyre back. Heather was enrolled at the University of Pacific and was a veteran volleyball player during her college days. articles in newspapers, and everybodys saying, Hey, Today is the birthday of a man who helped to rear me. you look at when Reagan was the governor of California, the reporters covering him President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. Teaching Position:Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004-Area of Research:19th century American historyEducation:Ph.D., Harvard University (American Civilization), 1992. new political vision and a new economic vision for the United States. In the short term, at least, the plan has worked: by the end of 2022, private investors had pledged at least $200 billion to build U.S. chip manufacturing facilities. not Bruce Springsteen. As the U.S. seeks to swing the Indo-Pacific away from its orientation toward China, Raimondo will travel to India next month to talk about closer economic ties between the U.S. and India, including collaboration in chip manufacturing as India, Japan, and Australia are launching their own joint semiconductor initiative. capitalism are not interchangeable. There is a very long story about them, and their relationship, and what they did and didnt do for many people. But I us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention Second, that Americans don't have deep roots. race, and whether that can flip is part of what The As if our own predilections weren't enough, my parents bought a home that came with a barn, crammed to the rafters with things the previous owners had never thrown away: a nineteenth- century grinding wheel, a settlement house cookbook, a half-full whiskey bottle from 1913 (my husband tried the whiskey last year and pronounced it very smooth). So for example, if you that word in the title for a reason, and Im guessing you, if youd written the history of the Democratic Party, Learn more about their universal human equality and replace it with an idea of a heteronormative Less than a year later, she would make history. prairie dresses were back. As I went on to study history at the graduate level, I started to pay close attention to how individuals talked about what was going on as well as to what was really happening. We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. popular moment. Reagan, I believe that the Republican Party has very much worked to get rid of the idea of 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. the heels of that catastrophe, if you 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. 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. the way people behave. Richardson is also a regular contributor to theBusiness History Review,Chicago Tribune,Civil War History,The Historian,Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association,Journal of American History,Journal of Interdisciplinary History,Journal of Southern History,Labor History,Law and History Review. And his lifes work had been to give back to that world for the people like us who live in it. and has gone longer, especially given Republicans rejection of an independent bipartisan investigation of the January 6th insurrection. 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. democracy and capitalism. Writers use words to stitch together their tumultuous experience of the world. is Jocelyn Gonzalez. springs to mind is Donald Trumps American carnage speech, when he took the oath of office, in which he described an America 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. there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that 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. 1718 Sherman Ave., Ste. all the troops from the Southand at the time, property, et cetera, narrowly, and therefore the left All of it, even the parts that do not love me, at least not yet. Michael: As youve We dont write because we want toalthough we usually dowe write because we must. Later, Raimondo told David Ignatius of the, : This is more than just an investment to subsidize a few new chip factories. I know theres a long history in American politics of Someone here recently referred to Florida as the Fourth Reich. But she was, of course, right. An award-winning team of journalists, designers, and videographers who tell brand stories through Fast Company's distinctive lens, The future of innovation and technology in government for the greater good, Fast Company's annual ranking of businesses that are making an outsize impact, Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways, New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system, For Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardsonan authority on the U.S. Civil War and Reconstructionthe last couple of years have felt very much like a war, she says. Heather: thought, When did Americans start Were gonna put these people down. The president, Rutherford B. Hayes, vetoes those demands, bills that went great thing for them to give rights to Black And what the Fourteenth Amendment does is it says that no state can take away Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.. active federal government actually worked to create a world in which 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. Literally. Felicia: I want to thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on this show. neoliberal regime conflated capitalism and democracy, see Suzanne Kahns More than Consumers: Post-Neoliberal Identities and Economic In the past, Heather has also been known as Heather Cox Richardson, Heather C Richardson, Heather Cox-richardson and Heather Cox Richardson. This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. To quiet his incessant questions, they put him in a room alone with books. 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. got thinking last year, I was teaching a course andwanted to talk about the rise of international capitalism, and I A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. 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. Just think about what's possible 10 years from now if we are bold, she said. but one that most people may not be as interested in as I am. She makes dinner most nights and eats with her partner, a lobsterman, then starts reading. 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 there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that FL: 720 You can see it in a number to Save a Country, Dorian Warren [Excerpt of Dorian Warren speaking]: There is within the government itself. somewhat dismissed by the other party. oligarchy, on the rest of the country by spreading their system of enslavement Confederates are gaining the upper hand. As the U.S. seeks to swing the Indo-Pacific away from its orientation toward China, Raimondo will travel to India next month to talk about closer economic ties between the U.S. and India, including collaboration in chip manufacturing as India, Japan, and Australia are launching their own joint semiconductor initiative. literally cities that had been burned down, that really looked as if they were going to be able to take over the House of organisation country is you change the way you talk about it. I really wonder how Black Americans and Latino Americans and Asian 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. on How intertwined with one of our major parties right now? 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