From “Letters from an American“: William McKinley is having a moment (which I confess is a sentence I never expected to write).Ā Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is elevating McKinley, representative from Ohio from 1877 to 1891 and president from […]
Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson on writing history’s first draft
The Boston College history professor’s Letters from an American is the most read newsletter on Substack. Here is a taste of John Wolfson’s interview with Richardson at Boston College Magazine: How didĀ Letters from an AmericanĀ get its start?I had a Facebook […]
Historian Heather Cox Richardson interviews Joe Biden
They talked about Kentanji Brown Jackson, Build Back Better, and American Democracy. Watch: Richardson writes about the experience at her wildly popular Substack page: Every day, people write to me and say they feel helpless to change the direction of […]
From the archives: “Twitter and the Historical Profession”
A reference to my article “Twitter the Historical Profession” is circulating on Twitter today. I completely forgot that I wrote this piece back in 2017 for The American Historian, the magazine of the Organization of American Historians. It seems so […]
Heather Cox Richardson on rewriting history
Earlier this month I wrote a long post on complexity and revisionism in the doing of history. Over at Milwaukee Independent, historian Heather Cox Richardson discusses the importance of rewriting history. She writes in the context of a recent revisionist […]