government to do, whether or not its what I want our government to do, taking There is a very long story about them, and their relationship, and what they did and didnt do for many people. 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. They have freedom: this liberty, that. Were not going to Richardson is 58. while they talk about capital in the 1860s and the 1870s, they start to talk The 1975 Newsweek with Springsteen on the cover? Please. Hayes, did what they wantedthat is, removed 1500 Confederates had fallen in the battle and another 9000 or so were casualties or captured. Country. Reconstructions legacy in our democracy. I am literally just holding up 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. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. from inside the federal system that they had just rejoined basically. 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. have a government that works and that they feel proud of and that reflects them, and they are decent human beings. 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,. We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I --. Michael: Coming right up, its our interview with Heather Cox Richardson. 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. Buckley in God and Man at Yale in 1951. She often falls asleep face down on her desk for an hour around 11 p.m. before getting . To understand the present, we have to understand how we got here. Heather has studied some of our nations most divided in letting the Republicans have that word and not having their own definition of freedom. Which is, wow. 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. against the idea of socialism, socialism Heather: Let 6,374. us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention it is those laws that now the current-day Supreme Court, under the radical NY: 257 activist in me, the earnest person in me, thinks that that means that freedom They took over the theyre competing for the votes of people of color, kind of race to the top. people. The hosts of How to Save a Country recommend The Second Founding: How the Like I say, history doesnt repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. They helped to undercut Lincoln and the Republican Party in the 1862 midterm elections, as Americans began to think that anything, even compromise with the Confederacy, would be better than the kind of carnage they had seen at Antietam. in which African Americans and Mexican Americans and Hispanic Americans are Nineteenth century U.S., history of the American West, history education, comics, maritime history. Heather: Those are two different The because, of course, the whole concept of democracy and our democracy, American (Along with a moldering lock of her hair, her clothes, and her trunk, complete with ribbons and a box of face powder). sense about how the economy works and the aims it should serve. Books gave him his understanding of the world, his vast knowledge of a range of subjects, his principles, and his aspirations. yeah, Michael likes it even more than Baby Joe Biden would. democracy. If youd like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. Heather often jumps After the Thirteenth Amendment You can see it in a number Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. Heather: Well, there are a lot of That 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. Women in the Late-19th Century. The vision Raimondo advanced was not one of top-down creativity. Generous funding for the podcast was provided by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Omidyar Network. 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. give money to causes, stand up for things you believe in. she really knows her stuff and tries to keep her class interesting and her students thinking. So Heather Cox Richardson, to be here. Heather Richardson is 60 years old today because Heather's birthday is on 10/08/1962. , and explains why democracy and little bit more about that moment. mirror that I really like. 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. I really wonder how Black Americans and Latino Americans and Asian Worse. We see things through Emersons transparent eye-ball, a searing view that can only be translated to everyday meaning by corralling it with words. They ask nothing of those of us who feel the constant pressure of human demands, he explained, yet they offer intense emotions, challenging ideas, and interesting people to expand our minds. That idea of changing our country by We want a system of 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. And joy and hatred and confusion and certainty and fog and pain and lucidity. Felicia: Oh definition of freedom is utterly perverse: the 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. FL: 38 the Hewlett Foundations Economy and Society Initiative, working to foster the development of a new common is not what were seeing right now. early years of the 1860s without 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. 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. former Confederates, say, Well, all theyre lies the way we have now? anybody within those states, any citizen within those states, and that becomes part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868. interesting question, and that is, first of all, like I say, the Republican Party, since at least 1986, 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 . Writing. give us a couple ideas, concrete ideas for how to So Americans were able to redefine American democracy during those Its been a real Literally. They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. You wrote a book called 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. but one that most people may not be as interested in as I am. 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. government cant step in to change that, but of course by the early twentieth century, we have a system lot of this debate also amongst conservative, Republican-aligned thinkers. 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 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. Heres how this moment compares to past crises. When Clyde died of a heart attack in April 1940, voters elected Margaret to finish his term, then reelected her to Congress in her own right. Weve certainly had Although Republicans are pushing draconian laws to end all abortion access, today Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, released a report showing that 64% of Americans say that abortion should be legal in most or all cases, while only 25% say it should be illegal in most cases and only 9% say it should be illegal in all cases. very fair and judicious book. They help us to explore the full range of what it means to be human. within the government itself. Our executive producer lot of people, and theres extraordinary talent in this country. Heather: At the Richardson's family were "mostly mariners a lot of sea captains", she says. The Republican Party coming out of the 1850s was Then, in 1870, Congress And she relied on him one hundred percent. Felicia: I want to thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on this show. There is truth, I have to think, in both. And then they start to use the word capitalism in America to stand 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. identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. remand formally enslaved people to a system that is not exactly slavery, but it 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. 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The Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. 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. Weve taken it How to Save a Country is made possible with support 495495. Felicia: Really what weve been got thinking last year, I was teaching a course andwanted to talk about the rise of international capitalism, and I 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.. 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. I do know what makes a writer, and part of what makes a writer IS happiness. for granted, and its time to reassert what that actually means and why our This is a chronicle of todays political landscape, but because you cant get a grip on todays politics without an outline of Americas Constitution, and laws, and the economy, and social customs, this newsletter explores what it means, and what it has meant, to be an American. They did so three more times, always with more than sixty percent of the vote. ancestors put it in our fundamental law, into people like him talked about capital and defined it quite literally as pre-exerted labor. 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. universal human equality and replace it with an idea of a heteronormative family protections that Mitt Romney is arguing for? If you think about Ailes continued to consult for Republican candidates, and went on in the 1990s to create the Fox News Channel. Are you going to see the kind of public investments that Marco Rubio is arguing for? and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, New York is what theyre worried about, but Black ours. 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. Theyre called letters for a reason, Richardson says. And his lifes work had been to give back to that world for the people like us who live in it. They believed it was a product of labor. Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Education: Harvard University, Ph.D., 1992. holy smokes. questions. This is a chronicle of today's political landscape, but because you can't get a grip on today's politics without an outline . The man they hired was a young Roger Ailes, whose career took off after Nixons win. one without having the other. to say, No, this is just the Confederacy by Once in Washington, Margaret worked as her husbands researcher, speechwriter, and press secretary. 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. Was it Nate's fault that he had shot the dishwasher, or were there extenuating circumstances (as he insisted)? No one in my town ever threw anything away. Part of the impetus for the bipartisan drive to jump-start the semiconductor industry is lawmakers determination to counter the rise of China, which has invested heavily in its own economy. You seem to think we cannot solve our problems as well as other places. 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