Heather Cox Richardson is the author of "To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party," amongst several other books, and a professor of history at Boston College. The Republican tax bill is ...

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 ...

Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson is elected to academy committed to honoring excellence, examining new ideas, and addressing issues of importance to the nation and the world. Professor of ...

In her newly published seventh book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson examines the long, intricate path to today’s fraught, ...

Historian and author Heather Cox Richardson joins The Eleventh Hour to discuss the parallels between the robber barons of yesterday and the oligarchs of today. IRS acting head ousted after US ...

Political historian Heather Cox Richardson joins WGN’s John Williams to discuss the current state of democracy and the responsibility of the American people in today’s political landscape. Heather and ...

Boston College History Professor Heather Cox Richardson was presented with the Baldacci Award for Literary Activism at the 32 nd annual Authors Guild Foundation Gala on May 30 in New York City. One of ...

Professor of History and award-winning author Heather Cox Richardson will share insights into shifting power dynamics, and the importance of historical perspective in addressing today’s political ...

Professor Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War ...

BC historian Heather Cox Richardson called Elon Musk’s alleged access to federal data a “coup,” and “the largest data breach in human history,” warning of a constitutional crisis. In a livestream to 2 ...