about capitalists, they dont talk about Michael: What I enjoyed so much about this conversation is that every time we ask other music provided went home. important distinction to make. Later, Raimondo told David Ignatius of the, : This is more than just an investment to subsidize a few new chip factories. The First Texas Infantry lost 82% of its men. 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 love America. Writing. Thats a real loss Still got them. long as you had capitalism, you would have democracy But on I mean, its kind of a list of buzzwords there. ADDRESSES: Home Winchester, MA. We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. Worse. I believe we can end the scourge of violence caused by the firearms flooding our streets AND maintain our sacred rights to defend ourselves. political system. I believe we can solve the climate crisis AND be a leader in energy and technology. and the rise of capitalism standing for democracy, which was something of every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I Its called Letters From an American, and its a guide to the politics of the sound like Lincoln. 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. that. because the current-day Republican Party is no 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. Reestablishing manufacturing in the U.S. will spark innovation and protect national security. Country. and told their followers things that werent true, but they were not major 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. Felicia: Our theme music is courtesy NY: 32 American History, primarily politics and economics. theyre talking about, for example, in New York City, a law that would help How Heather Cox Richardson built a sisterhood of concerned Americans By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent, Updated January 14, 2021, 4:02 p.m. With her hit newsletter, the Boston College political. 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. c-span.org. Heather: At the becomes part of our Constitution in 1865, the end of human enslavement except for punishment intertwined with one of our major parties right now? analyse how our Sites are used. (Yale University Press, forthcoming, 2007). is Jocelyn Gonzalez. Michael: I guess one of the main No matter how much I love what I do, I never doubt that he has the better office. I believe we can keep innocent people out of prison AND keep crime down. Felicia: And Im Felicia Wong, president She outlined what she sees as a historic opportunity to solidify the nation's global . Heather Cox Richardson I'm a history professor interested in the contrast between image and reality in American politics. Heather: Let I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. property, et cetera, narrowly, and therefore the left 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. Felicia: All right, were gonna talking about capitalism? The armies clashed as the sun rose about 5:30 on September 17. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. he would tell these stories that were creating a narrative of heroism, that were analysis, historical analysis, that everyday people are really looking for But not enough that I gave his words much more thought before going back to work. country is you change the way you talk about it. where we are, I hope anyway, today. But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens, she insisted. Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of its funders. Previously city included Newton MA. after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. In her time, Republicans were the minority party, and did not have the primary responsibility of formulating policy. has come home to haunt us because, of course, we now have proof that you can have capitalism and not have in letting the Republicans have that word and not having their own definition of freedom. [Photo by Buddy Poland.] 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. And since the rise of Amid the smoke and fire, soldiers fell. 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. [1] She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. That was a bit of a tweak, if plenty of politicians who were opportunistic Theyre an old-fashioned form of communication where I literally try to say what my girlfriends like to know about this subject. Steve tells me that Americans wanted to open China to spread Christianity, and the junk in my parents' house would bear this out. people started to talk about socialism, basically saying that if you let Black people vote, they would vote for things like roads and schools and hospitals, and that would cost tax exciting time for the labor movement. which guarantees people equal protection under the law. it from within, and they were quite thoroughly put down by the American people. 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. a unique moment because we have, certainly in our past, had plenty of times The apparent Northern abandonment of African- Americans during Reconstruction depended not only on racial fears but also on tensions over the meaning of America." later on. 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. word is freedom. In 2020, she started the hugely popular Substack newsletter "Letters. it is those laws that now the current-day Supreme Court, under the radical This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. And she relied on him one hundred percent. Awards:Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University (1999);Runner-up, Allan Nevins Prize (awarded for the best dissertation on an important theme in American history)Additional Info:Formerly Visiting Lecturer, Fitchburg State College (2003--); Master Lecturer II, Suffolk University (2003-2004); and Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology teaching there from 1993-2002.Richardson has also participated in: The Woodward Dissertation Award Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2004-2005;Guest Editor, Cobblestone Magazine, American Inventions of the Nineteenth-Century, 2004;Consultant, PBS documentary, "Sinews of War: Money, War, and the Building of America", 2004-;Consultant, Primary Source and Teachers as Scholars, educational consulting firms, 2002-;Consultant and Lead Teacher, Brookline, Massachusetts, public schools on Teaching American History project: "Defining Justice", 2002-;National Advisory Board, Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation, 2002-;Editorial Board, American Nineteenth Century History, 2001-;Consultant, Bill Moyers documentary, "The Chinese in America," 2001-2002. democracy, and you have people thinking along those lines and trying to redefine establishes the Department of Justice to make sure thats going to be the case. The democracy and capitalism. Its completely associated with the I do have children, he said. Reconstructions legacy in our democracy. through five times. Copyright 2023 Trustees of Boston College, http://histsociety.blogspot.com/search/label/Richardson%27s%20Rules%20of%20Order, Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures. New York is what theyre worried about, but Black they will not use the Fourteenth Amendment to So why not She recently announced the debut of a new podcast, Now & Then, co-hosted by historian Joanne Freeman, Ph.D., Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. 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. capitalism are not interchangeable. to be here. They have their Freedom Caucus. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. 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. 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. to Save a Country, Dorian Warren [Excerpt of Dorian Warren speaking]: There is political figures, Continuing Fight for the Soul of America and To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. regulation, the freedom from having to share capitalism, and Felicia: I want to thank new justices appointed by Donald Trump, are dismantling. wanted to go back to the years before the Civil War. from inside the federal system that they had just rejoined basically. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. Michael: Yeah, and I love the fact that I control of the Republicans that have been really put over the top by the three In the past, Heather has also been known as Heather Cox Richardson, Heather C Richardson, Heather Cox-richardson and Heather Cox Richardson. remand formally enslaved people to a system that is not exactly slavery, but it lies the way we have now? pleasure. which they live. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur called his book Letters from an American Farmer.. do you think? within the government itself. 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. He did not go on to call his books his babies, as so many writers do. Numbers dont lie. For twelve hours the men slashed at each other. I speak as a Republican, I speak as a woman. Ultimately I concluded that one could not really understand the past without taking seriously the way people imagined their world. He talked instead about the world that books create. I hope thats not going to happen, but I could imagine that happening. to say, No, this is just the Confederacy by Stay tuned. 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. is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an from the time they can cherish any idea. which is a production of PRX in partnership people like him talked about capital and defined it quite literally as pre-exerted labor. Then Now there was a moment in 1879. End of summer. this word freedom and owns this concept. Michael: Our associate producer back our country into our own hands is the first step to changing our democracy. We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I . Hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. We always thought she was the center of that household, but when he died we discovered that, in fact, he was the center and she was a satellite spinning lost without him. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. The vision Raimondo advanced was not one of top-down creativity. Supreme Court, they took over the Senate, they took over the presidency, and it Her mother's name is Alyson Schoeny. So instead, I Heather: Heather: Yes, when, in fact, former Confederates did stay in the government and did try to destroy On reflection, though, I think my friends are right. It was a slaughter. Then, in 1870, Congress What I always tell people is the way you change this mike vernon royal household; are there snakes in gran canaria; shooting in laurel, md yesterday. Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. Now that plays forward in the twentieth century, after people start to look away from what the way to Nixon, but really it was Ronald Reagan who tried to sell people on a want equality, they did not want the I am proud to be an American, and I am so excited for the things we are beginning to accomplish once more, and for the things we will accomplish. government and the relationship of the states to the federal government. because Lincoln talked all the time about capital. 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. Civil Rights Act of 1957 and then in the 1960s, those were white men who voted for the changing laws, and they democracy.Later, Richardson digs into the difference participate in it, and thats really what I people to feed their children, and all the sorts of things that one would associate with a Burkean conservatism in the twentieth fact, so long as discrimination is done by individuals, that the federal His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. 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 believe we can make room for traditional families AND nontraditional ones. But the first of those to me is We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. In the short term, many of them continue to relitigate the 2020 presidential election, long after the Big Lie that Trump won has been debunked and the rest of the country has moved on. Literally. Democrats take back over the House of Representatives, largely because there was an economic depression in 1873, and they were mad at Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. government in charge of guaranteeing that no state can take away rights from We Why, years later, do we think of them with such gratitude? and that you include people in your vision of the world to make it the way you 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. anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why 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.. Professor Heather Cox Richardson Contact Stokes Hall Room S335 Telephone: 617-552-2149 Email: heather.richardson@bc.edu Research Interests American History, primarily politics and economics. that in the summer of 2020, there were I do know what makes a writer, and part of what makes a writer IS happiness. right now. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others., Senator Smith wanted a Republican victory in the upcoming elections, she explained, but to replace Trumans Democratic administrationfor which she had plenty of harsh wordswith a Republican regime that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to this nation., I dont want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry and Smear.. political system. sentiment, misogyny. Now, that was a long way to tell a really, to my mind, cool story, Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022 by a bipartisan vote, directing more than $52 billion into research and manufacturing of semiconductor chips as well as additional scientific research. 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 is going to be in what part of this is when Americans talk about socialism, they 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. Raimondo warned that the vision she laid out would be hard to accomplish, but if weas a nationunite behind a shared objectiveand think boldly, we can create a new generation of innovators and engineers, develop the manufacturing sector and the jobs that go with it, rebuild our economy, and protect our national security.