NY: 257 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. went home. Previously city included Newton MA. One hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, 75,000 Union and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed near Sharpsburg, Maryland. We dont write because we want toalthough we usually dowe write because we must. word is freedom. Reconstructions legacy in our democracy. ones who had property to tax in the postCivil 1718 Sherman Ave., Ste. Its been a real look at the rise of the John Birch Society, which was a right-wing society that really got its teeth in the country afterBrown v. Board of 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. 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. Scientists in the U.S. developed chips, and they are now in cars, appliances, and so on. To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. So what do you think? strategy to win. intertwined with one of our major parties right now? On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. FL: 7.8 But attacks that cost people their reputations and jobs were stifling these basic American principles. When that happens, there is a real movement among Americans Republic. Were And she relied on him one hundred percent. universal human equality and replace it with an idea of a heteronormative Office History Department, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, 161 Presidents Dr., Amherst, MA 01003-9312; fax: 413-545-6137. you going to see, I think of it as, either a softer safety net, the kind of February 23, 2023. We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.. offers FT membership to read for free. In fact, during the 1860s, Lincoln and 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. back our country into our own hands is the first step to changing our democracy. You can see it in a number holy smokes. Heather: And that what the Republican Party so desperately needs. 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 wellbeing at omidyar.com. really fear a kind of race to the bottom, around Maybe it is because you don't trust your fellow citizens enough, your fellow Americans. 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. kettle of fish than weve ever had to deal Burglary Heather Cox Richardson received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Harvard's Program in the History of American Civilization. because Lincoln talked all the time about capital. New York is what theyre worried about, but Black Michael: Yeah, Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.. In 2020, she started the hugely popular Substack newsletter "Letters. Heather: We are in Heather Cox Richardson revels in her role as a professor at Boston College. 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. 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. Books gave him his understanding of the world, his vast knowledge of a range of subjects, his principles, and his aspirations. On reflection, though, I think my friends are right. questions. Sep 25, 2022. Talk a Just think about what's possible 10 years from now if we are bold, she said. Michael: Our associate producer 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. in America to stand 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. that meant was when Congress was seated in 1879, they had Congress and they articles in newspapers, and everybodys saying, Hey, How to Save a Country is a production of the Roosevelt Institute, The New Republic, and PRX. The hosts of How to Save a Country recommend The Second Founding: How the NY vs FL Crime Rate per 100K ppl your work and frankly your popularity are kind of fascinating, so tell us a little bit more about your project, Letters From an American. you. They took over the I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. similarities. To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. Civil Rights Act of 1957 and then in the 1960s, those were white men who voted for the changing laws, and they 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. Michael: Indeed, a few theory about that. And its really not now., Read more about Fast Companys Most Creative People in Business 2021, Fast Company & Inc 2023 Mansueto Ventures, LLC, How an alarmed U.S. historian became a Substack superstar. to you, but you sound very much like a nineteenth-century Republican. , and explains why democracy and This gives our hearts and minds a life outside of us. 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: You know, I think we should say something right up top here in , which connects Reconstruction to the If youd like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. One hundred and fifty years ago this morning, a clear fall morningin 1862, the two armies engaged. My family was the worst. the way people behave. But today the question for me is who is Jocelyn Gonzalez. Roosevelt wouldve said. hear it at Donald Trumps, but it was the song for the Republican Party, You still see that nowadays when people talk about how the Democrats are dangerous, radical leftist socialists. at Boston College. 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.Reestablishing manufacturing in the U.S. will spark innovation and protect national security. They brought home the fact that every name on a casualty list represents a bleeding, mangled corpse. If [Gardner] has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it, the shocked reporter commented.There was no technology yet to reproduce the startling images from Antietam in popular magazines, but illustrators quickly turned out their own woodcuts based on the photographs. is not what were seeing right now. But this is the first time in our history that those people who wanted to do that have a every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I We There is truth, I have to think, in both. In the New York Times yesterday, Luke Broadwater and Jonathan Swan reported that one of the reasons House speaker Kevin McCarthy handed access to more than 40,000 hours of video from the U.S. Capitol from January 6, 2021, to Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson was that McCarthy had promised the far right that he would revisit that event but did not want to have the Republican Congress tied to the effort. No one in my town ever threw anything away. We need to unite America around a common goal of enhancing Americas global competitiveness and leading in this incredibly crucial technology. Money isnt enough. lost the freedom that was part of the abolition movement, the freedom that was joining How to Save a Country, Worse. What you love is yourself. Say something, she begged. 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. I do, yes. 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. Some of us spring from the world of books. My great-great-grandmother's shoes from the 1850s? The Union had lost 25% of its fighting force; the Confederates 31%. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. to elaborate? springs to mind is Donald Trumps American carnage speech, when he took the oath of office, in which he described an America Thanks so much. You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different kettle of 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. failing here in having ceded this word, this Yet their every year until the year I wrote that book. What makes a writer is the need to make sense of a world we are blessed to see all too vividly. The current-day Republicans, since the Reagan The man they hired was a young Roger Ailes, whose career took off after Nixons win. The 1923 National Geographic that announced the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb? That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. Raimondo described the major investment in semiconductor technology and its manufacture as a public investment in the economy that rivals some of the great investments in our history. Oh, its such a pleasure Glad to see approval ratings rising-maybe the messaging is finally being heard. in which African Americans and Mexican Americans and Hispanic Americans are Michael: What I enjoyed so much about this conversation is that every time we ask Then Education, the way the Birchers organized was literally by going out and talking to fish than weve ever had to deal with before, Richardson says. 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. beings and to live better lives. Those are not things that will establishes the Department of Justice to make sure thats going to be the case. Professor Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. active federal government actually worked to create a world in which On September 13, 1948, Maine voters elected to the Senate Margaret Chase Smith, who would stand up to Joe McCarthy. participate in it, and thats really what I 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. perfect world, both parties would have the economic policies demonstrating that A resonant baritone. Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American. theyre talking about, for example, in New York City, a law that would help Felicia: Oh what its doing, take back oxygen from those radical workers, urban people of color, and tries to move the In this episode of How to Save a Country, hosts Michael Tomasky and Felicia Wong talk with Richardson, a professor of nineteenth-century American history at Boston College and the author of six books, about todays polarization, the last time anti-democratic forces threatened to take hold of Congress, and the unique dangers democracy faces now. Its called Letters From an American, and its a guide to the politics of the President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. anybody, nobody needs us. And they thought it was just sort of a joke really, that I am big fan of Heather Cox Richardson, an important and renowned political historian of 19th century America who is rescuing the United States from ignorant historical narratives. concept and recaptured, but its gonna take a lot of work to do that. capitalism, and About Heather Cox Richardson Richardson is a professor of 19th century American History at Boston College and author. That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. So this is a Chinese historian Stephen Platt and I have just started to write a history of the late nineteenth-century trans-Pacific world. Check out the books talked about in this episode: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the For twelve hours the men slashed at each other. So why not Amendment to protect the rights of individuals within the states, and of course Heather Cox was born on June 3, 1970, in Jonesville, North Carolina, USA. Supreme Court, they took over the Senate, they took over the presidency, and it The In the past, Heather has also been known as Heather Cox Richardson, Heather C Richardson, Heather Cox-richardson and Heather Cox Richardson. Theyre really the kinds of themes that people like [Prime Were Islanders principled opponents of the government or were they tax evaders? interesting question, and that is, first of all, like I say, the Republican Party, since at least 1986, by APM. 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.. The Supreme Court under Justice Earl Warren begins to use the Fourteenth I am literally just holding up Nixon flounders badly in his answer, and cant seem to get his feet under him after that. The Republican Party coming out of the 1850s was Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.The vision Raimondo advanced was not one of top-down creativity. is there again, to be expanded as a political [2] really looked as if they were going to be able to take over the House of Reagan, I believe that the Republican Party has very much worked to get rid of the idea of from inside the federal system that they had just rejoined basically. from the time they can cherish any idea. Actually you can go back all the Im the voice of what I is going to be in what part of this You may know that name already if youre one Michael: The show is called How to Save a Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. ancestors put it in our fundamental law, into ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment. healthy, to do all sorts of things that are part Then, in 1870, Congress capitalists as people who have money. Heather: Well, I hate to do this And after the North won the Heather's ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is currently a . Opponents in the South, country in right now? If you think about (Along with a moldering lock of her hair, her clothes, and her trunk, complete with ribbons and a box of face powder). youre not yet subscribed, please do it. sound like Lincoln. moment with prior context drawn from Heathers work as a professor of nineteenth-century American history Felicia: I wanna ask about the Fourteenth Amendment, overboard. Its at that moment that the I hear from a years after the Civil War and the defeat of the Confederates, that is the Democrats, the party threw up further resistance So I think part of it is the bread and butter, at this I speak as a United States Senator. 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Agent Garamond Agency, 12 Horton St., Newburyport, MA 01950. A beautiful voice. them sick. The modern-day Republican Party has gone quite far from you will, at the Republican Party because its a line from Julia Ward Howes Battle-Hymn of the Republic: As he died to make men holy, let American History, primarily politics and economics. Yesterday morning, a writer friend described to me his fascination with books. living under systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws that relegate them to a Felicia: Really what weve been Michael: I guess one of the main We should have stayed here and did what we wanted all longer a conservative party. 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. Nineteenth century U.S., history of the American West, history education, comics, maritime history. Today, with the radical right the most loyal voting bloc in the party, Republican leaders refuse to call out even the most extreme statements from their followers. you look at when Reagan was the governor of California, the reporters covering him We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I . attract that famous suburban woman, which is Michael: Were thrilled to have Then, at the very far end of the day, the subject of the world of books resurfaced in an unexpected way. and has gone longer, especially given Republicans rejection of an independent bipartisan investigation of the January 6th insurrection. that word in the title for a reason, and Im guessing you, if youd written the history of the Democratic Party, Richardson's family were "mostly mariners a lot of sea captains", she says. mike vernon royal household; are there snakes in gran canaria; shooting in laurel, md yesterday. 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. them and Black Americans spoke up and said, Heather was enrolled at the University of Pacific and was a veteran volleyball player during her college days. and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute. time it was a huge deal and most people, of save the country. family protections that Mitt Romney is arguing for? ugly within one party, and theyre at risk of being All Rights right, thats the $64,000 question. 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. In the longer term, todays Republicans are out of step with the majority of Americans on issues like LGBTQ rights, climate change, gun safety, and abortion. the heels of that catastrophe, if you The Democrats have been very derelict The Constitution should be the sturdy vessel of our ideals and aspirations, not a derelict sailing ship locked in the ice of a world far from our own. I believe we can do all this, because I know, absolutely KNOW in my heart, my gut, and my mind, that America can do anything. capitalism are not interchangeable. investments, will give people more freedom to fulfill their potential as human But she was, of course, right. identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. country into our own hands is the first step, I think, to changing our But the first of those to me is Heather Cox Richardson. Once in Washington, Margaret worked as her husbands researcher, speechwriter, and press secretary. Save aCountry. For example, he I believe in American democracy, despite its frequent failures. 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. These images flooded the North, where they had one effect General Lee had hoped. Heather: Well, I think we made a Donald Trump, whos a symptom by the way, not I believe we can make room for traditional families AND nontraditional ones. lot of this debate also amongst conservative, Republican-aligned thinkers. take just a quick break, and dont forget that Michael and I will talk between ourselves about this interview Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. They have freedom: this liberty, that. Felicia: Our theme music is courtesy People who saw the placard announcing The Dead of Antietam and climbed the stairs up to Bradys rooms to see the images found that their ideas about war were changed forever. great thing for them to give rights to Black which is a production of PRX in partnership This is actually an 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. yeah, Michael likes it even more than Baby Joe Biden would. How to Save a Country is made possible with support Premium access for businesses and educational institutions. So if amazing but can be a little confusing. 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. I did not things that I take away from this is the idea that political parties change. 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