On April 1, 2025, Heather Cox Richardson, the author of the politically left-leaning Substack "Letters from an American" and a history professor at Boston College, posted (archived) on Facebook that ...

As part of his push to crack down on immigration, President Donald Trump dusted off an obscure 18th-century law, drawing harsh criticism — and a court order to stop it, which his officials are ...

On Point host Meghna Chakrabarti moderated a conversation with historian Heather Cox Richardson about her new book, “Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.” Following the phenomenal ...

The author of “Democracy Awakening” and a popular politics newsletter makes a powerful case for studying the past. By Elisabeth Egan When Heather Cox Richardson was an undergraduate at Harvard, she ...