Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D.

Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Guardian, among other outlets.

Prof. Richardson’s newest book is Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, published in 2023.

Prof. Richardson is the co-editor of We’re 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 over two million readers. She is a co-host of the Vox podcast Now & Then.