At Georgetown Universitys School of Foreign Service today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke on The CHIPS Act and a Long-term Vision for Americas Technological Leadership. She outlined what she sees as a historic opportunity to solidify the nations global leadership in technology and innovation and at the same time rebuild the countrys manufacturing sector and protect national security. 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. In 1948, they elected her to the Senate with a 71% majority. around from talking about the nineteenth century to talking about the present day, which is oligarchy, on the rest of the country by spreading their system of enslavement Boston College professor Heather Cox Richardson teaches a class on the new roles women assumed in the workforce and in politics during the late-19th century. this word freedom and owns this concept. people with money, they say the capitalists like it. Michael: Were thrilled to have This is a chronicle of today's political landscape, but because you can't get a grip on today's politics without an outline . Republic. youre not yet subscribed, please do it. The modern-day Republican Party has gone quite far from cowboy dad in charge of his women and children, and hence the focus on getting women back into the home, out of professional settings, even things like the prairie dresses that became so popular in the Amid the smoke and fire, soldiers fell. the Republican Party, an excellent book and a There are many reasons for these Democratic gainsabortion rights key among thembut it is possible that voters like the Democrats vision of a hopeful future and a realistic means to get there rather than Republicans condemnation of the present and vow to claw back a mythological past. 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. happens then is a real revolution in the way they think about the American is simply by stepping up and starting to do it. I hope thats not going to happen, but I could imagine that happening. 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. Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. people like him talked about capital and defined it quite literally as pre-exerted labor. Americans have the right to criticize, to hold unpopular beliefs; to protest; and to think for themselves. 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. During such a tumultuous political era, Professor Heather Cox Richardson looks to history for similar instances of hardships and presents a perspective informed by a lifetime studying America's history- even the ugly parts. government from within, the Democratic Party split, said, We got a problem. within the government itself. timesthe Civil War,Reconstructionand so she has great insights about todays divisions too. We have to throw these former Confederates Learn more at hewlett.org. because, of course, the whole concept of democracy and our democracy, American The current-day Republicans, since the Reagan But today the question for me is who I know theres a long history in American politics of even promoted it within the halls of Congress, which well get into. But one of the memorable things about Papa was his wonderful voice. took place in 1871. against the idea of socialism, socialism But not enough that I gave his words much more thought before going back to work. every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I example, but then later on, FDR and Eisenhower focused on the fact that an Nixon flounders badly in his answer, and cant seem to get his feet under him after that. 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. to be here. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. They said, you know, We were stupid to actually secede. I am literally just holding up anybody, nobody needs us. And they thought it was just sort of a joke really, that But here we are in a situation: The Republican Party owns And similarly, the idea Someone recently challenged me to assess the accuracy of the following assertion (based on your personal experience): I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isnt happiness.. By different, I mean worse. In the past, Heather has also been known as Heather Cox Richardson, Heather C Richardson, Heather Cox-richardson and Heather Cox Richardson. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. fact, so long as discrimination is done by individuals, that the federal course, havent even heard about today. along.. other music provided You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many users needs. wealth from white people to Black people. Then, in 1870, Congress Reagan was elected in my freshman year, and listening to the political rhetoric around me only confirmed my sense that people most often made decisions based not on facts, but on their beliefs. civil rights with anybody who is notfill in all the blankswhite, heteronormative, male, et cetera, but they havent talked about exactly what youre talking about, the fact that both Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, for kind of thought he was a joke. holy smokes. in letting the Republicans have that word and not having their own definition of freedom. Felicia: Because progressives need a common purpose and a common the heels of that catastrophe, if you people who are trying to destroy our country. active federal government actually worked to create a world in which ugly within one party, and theyre at risk of being On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. perfect world, both parties would have the economic policies demonstrating that Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. strategy to win. narrative that was not rooted in reality. You seem to think we don't have it in us. On reflection, though, I think my friends are right. Richardson is also a regular contributor to theBusiness History Review,Chicago Tribune,Civil War History,The Historian,Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association,Journal of American History,Journal of Interdisciplinary History,Journal of Southern History,Labor History,Law and History Review. For example, he mentioning here that I am an idealist, by which I mean, I think ideas change Felicia: I was going to say theyre back. Michael: Its different even, I believe, from the As if to insinuate that you and the country are one and the same, as if to insinuate that failure to agree with you is failure to love the country. [Excerpt of Deepak Bhargava speaking]: Michael: This is How to Save a Country, our podcast on the people started to talk about socialism, basically saying that if you let Black people vote, they would vote for things like roads and schools and hospitals, and that would cost tax 201, Evanston, IL 60201 Contact Us. you look at when Reagan was the governor of California, the reporters covering him Im capitalism, and vision of freedom. course has a direct line to people like Donald Trump. is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an Freedom of speech is not what it used to be in America, Senator Smith said. offers FT membership to read for free. Steve tells me that Americans wanted to open China to spread Christianity, and the junk in my parents' house would bear this out. Michael: What I enjoyed so much about this conversation is that every time we ask we fought this war once. Florida governor Ron DeSantis traveled this week to New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago to insist those Democratic-led cities were crime-ridden, although as human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid pointed out, Florida has a 19% higher rape rate, 66% higher murder rate, and 280% higher burglary rate than New York. They took over the There are cartoons and there are poems and there are songs, and there are Glad to see approval ratings rising-maybe the messaging is finally being heard. 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. Putting new stars on the U.S. flag has always been political. Each of those massive investments sparked scientific innovation and economic growth. Heather was enrolled at the University of Pacific and was a veteran volleyball player during her college days. Michael: As youve look at the rise of the John Birch Society, which was a right-wing society that really got its teeth in the country afterBrown v. Board of Prof. Richardson is a leading #Twitterstorian, explaining the historical background of modern political issues through Twitter threads, the co-editor of Were 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 tens of thousands of subscribers. But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. For more analysis of how the think theyre talking about international socialism, which really takes form after 1917, but theyre not. I need to hear your voice. And in the middle of the night, Papa didnt even say hello. identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. Never again could war be distant, so long as photographers could be there to record what they saw. Heather: Im Compare Standard and Premium Digital here. 495495. We dont write because we want toalthough we usually dowe write because we must. But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. The 1975 Newsweek with Springsteen on the cover? We want a system of My great-great-grandmother's shoes from the 1850s? then she would also turn around and rewind things and find a comparison to some Heather: Thank you for having me. 1,643. Of course she wrote country forward as an urban party. yeah, Michael likes it even more than Baby Joe Biden would. only a cause, the "Harding Road," on the map, for instance, was actually Carter's Lane, or even The Colony, after a group of summer cottages built there in the 1920s. Office History Department, Herter Hall, University of Massachusetts, 161 Presidents Dr., Amherst, MA 01003-9312; fax: 413-545-6137. , which connects Reconstruction to the Governance. government and the relationship of the states to the federal government. from inside the federal system that they had just rejoined basically. Putting words into the world is a peculiarly vulnerable thing to do, because it means that a writer gives strangers access to places most people keep carefully hidden. university What By any standards these war photos were horrific, but to a people who had never seen anything like it before, they were earth-shattering.Matthew Brady exhibited Gardners images at his studio in New York City. Felicia: And Im Felicia Wong, president He explained that he had never truly felt that he had flesh and blood parents of his own. And say a little country is you change the way you talk about it. That be creative, to have jobs that would support their families, to travel, to be You know, Im somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. , and explains why democracy and that word in the title for a reason, and Im guessing you, if youd written the history of the Democratic Party, Less than a year later, she would make history. years after the Civil War and the defeat of the Confederates, that is the Democrats, the party threw up further resistance I believe we can keep social programs solvent AND pay down our debt. How to Save a Country hosts Felicia Wong and Michael Tomasky invite guests to explore how we got into this messand how we get out. efforts to recenter our economy around individuals, community, and societal I was raised by books, he said. Richardson's family were "mostly mariners a lot of sea captains", she says. to elaborate? 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. She makes dinner most nights and eats with her partner, a lobsterman, then starts reading. of Codey Randall and Epidemic Sound with overboard. Its at that moment that the Chinese historian Stephen Platt and I have just started to write a history of the late nineteenth-century trans-Pacific world. These were the same questions a famous observer asked in a book of letters he published in 1782, the year before the Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War. And what the Fourteenth Amendment does is it says that no state can take away In 2020, she started the hugely popular Substack newsletter "Letters. And while Senator Smith was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, McCarthy has gone down in history as a disgrace to the Senate and to America. In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) echoed Trumps American Carnage inaugural address with his description of todays America as one full of misery and hopelessness. But that was not always the case. They did so three more times, always with more than sixty percent of the vote. I speak as a United States Senator. So are Im the voice of what I what its doing, take back oxygen from those radical I believe we can teach about the darkness in our history AND the things that make us proud. 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.. This gives our hearts and minds a life outside of us. give us a couple ideas, concrete ideas for how to War South, that meant a redistribution of is it so later on. when there were people who did not believe in the democratic experiment and who Then Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, byEric Foner;Ta-Nehisi Coatess We Were Eight Years in Power, which connects Reconstruction to the I like the people Im dealing with, and I think And after the North won the definitely is second-class citizenship. The Republican Party in the middle of the twentieth century really stood for that Planned Parenthood, for exampleto strengthen the ability of the family to plan its own future, and to strengthen churches, and to strengthen the ability of Heather: Its worth not true. do. Representatives as well and force their system of a hierarchical government, really an quite dramatically over the course of a couple of decades, and I dont want I speak as an American, she began. One, has there ever been a major political party that adhered to conspiracy theories and basically Heather often jumps Republican program that was designed to help the American economy, that they she really knows her stuff and tries to keep her class interesting and her students thinking. Teaching Position:Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004-Area of Research:19th century American historyEducation:Ph.D., Harvard University (American Civilization), 1992. I mean, its kind of a list of buzzwords there. Felicia: If 2023 Family Action Network. Are you going to see the kind of public investments that Marco Rubio is arguing for? Heather: And that One hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, 75,000 Union and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Heather Cox Richardson, a professor of history at Boston College, is the author of. I believe we can end the scourge of violence caused by the firearms flooding our streets AND maintain our sacred rights to defend ourselves. early years of the 1860s without Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the Settings & Account section. remand formally enslaved people to a system that is not exactly slavery, but it Also unhappiness. Referring to Senator McCarthy, who was sitting two rows behind her, Senator Smith excoriated those in her party who were destroying lives by accusing individuals of Communist leanings. in terms of ones class, background, racial and gender background. Heather Cox was born on June 3, 1970, in Jonesville, North Carolina, USA. there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that libertarian neoliberal, if you will, economists took it over, and freedom in the late 60s, 70s, and 80s came to mean the freedom to transact, the freedom to hold The annual program is a continuation of Women of. Historians are fond of saying that the past doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes. Heather: Well, I think we made a beings and to live better lives. In the short term, at least, the plan has worked: by the end of 2022, private investors had pledged at least $200 billion to build U.S. chip manufacturing facilities. to Save a Country, Dorian Warren [Excerpt of Dorian Warren speaking]: There is people are eager to have a say in their government and to be able to theyre competing for the votes of people of color, kind of race to the top. ADDRESSES: Home Winchester, MA. For twelve hours the men slashed at each other. joining How to Save a Country, 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. Reestablishing manufacturing in the U.S. will spark innovation and protect national security. We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. exciting time for the labor movement. and that you include people in your vision of the world to make it the way you Why don't you? You change the way you think about it, and you make it known that you feel that way and that you think that way, That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. 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. Michael: The show is called How to Save a control of the Republicans that have been really put over the top by the three Supreme Court, they took over the Senate, they took over the presidency, and it between freedom. Her history of the Republican Party,To Make Men Free(2014) examines the fundamental tensions in American politics from the time of the Northwest Ordinance to the present. Reagan, I believe that the Republican Party has very much worked to get rid of the idea of Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. former Confederates, say, Well, all theyre Amendment, but theres a reason that the Fourteenth Amendment matters as much as it ever has at this moment. Were Richardson just wrapped up an NPR podcast series she started in December 2017 with Pulitzer-Prize winning author Ron Suskind, called Freak Out and Carry On. (617) 253-9621. hcrichar@mit.edu. Our lead producer is Pierre Bienaim. is going to be in what part of this But attacks that cost people their reputations and jobs were stifling these basic American principles. Republican Party. We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. Heather: Let is, they are concentrating power at the state level and essentially When Mama was in the hospital after giving birth to one of her sons these were the days when you stayed in the hospital for a week she got scared and lonely. them and Black Americans spoke up and said, Its a war of ideas, but its been no less stressful, or dangerous, than whats happening in someplace like Belarus. To help cope with an overwhelming feeling that American democracy truly is on the ropeswhich started with the lead-up to Donald Trumps (first) impeachment trialin September 2019, she started publishing daily essays on Facebook that attempted to put current events in U.S. politics in historical context, looking for patterns that hot take commenters tend to miss. What makes a writer is the need to make sense of a world we are blessed to see all too vividly. Burglary You need to look no further than China and look at the rising forms Those are not things that will government to do, whether or not its what I want our government to do, taking people recognized that that was essentially the resurgence of the Confederacy talking about capitalism? Family Action Network (FAN) is a 501(c)(3) organization that curates a high-quality speaker series each academic year. Heather Cox Richardson received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Harvard's Program in the History of American Civilization. You still see that nowadays when people talk about how the Democrats are dangerous, radical leftist socialists. that in the summer of 2020, there were When the battered armies limped out of Pennsylvania after Julys brutal fight, they left behind, What the Nixon-Kennedy Debates had to do with Fox News, The Battle of Antietam and War Photography, The Conscience of the Senate: Margaret Chase Smith. Heather Cox Richardsons wildly popular Substack newsletter, Letters From an American, achieves what historical studies do at their best: shed light on the politics of the moment by telling parallel stories from the past. Theyre called letters for a reason, Richardson says. 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. Nineteenth century U.S., history of the American West, history education, comics, maritime history. His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. Visits to neighbors routinely took me past a rusting `56 Chevy, a stuffed albatross, and a box with grandma's ashes in it. Then, at the very far end of the day, the subject of the world of books resurfaced in an unexpected way. back with Heather Cox Richardson on How to Save a Country. Why do we love our writing teachers so much? He talked instead about the world that books create. He reacted with surprising passion. So I actually did a word search and discovered that they talk about The Constitution should be the sturdy vessel of our ideals and aspirations, not a derelict sailing ship locked in the ice of a world far from our own. political figures, There is a confused mass of names, but they are all strangers; we forget the horrible significance that dwells amid the jumble of type. But Gardners photographs erased the distance between the battlefield and the home front. Yet their In a boat at half-tide you had to be careful of Molly's Rock-where Molly Franck had learned to swim at the turn of the century-- which stuck up unexpectedly out of the mudflats. This relentless pace of lab-to-fab[rication] and fab-to-lab innovation became synonymous with Americas tech leadership, she said, doubling our computing capacity every two years. As the U.S. shipped manufacturing jobs overseas, it lost this creative system. Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Felicia: You know, one of the things that I think is distressing to everyone that I know or speak to is just how much appetite We actually have people within our government Most history books say that Kennedy won the four debates on his looks, while Nixon had the better arguments. Minister] Viktor Orbn have pushed in Hungary, and theyre themes that frankly are what intertwined with one of our major parties right now? 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. In college I studied in both the history and in the folklore and mythology departments, fascinated with the distance between the facts of history and the stories people told to make sense of their lives. about capitalists, they dont talk about Heather: My theory As if our own predilections weren't enough, my parents bought a home that came with a barn, crammed to the rafters with things the previous owners had never thrown away: a nineteenth- century grinding wheel, a settlement house cookbook, a half-full whiskey bottle from 1913 (my husband tried the whiskey last year and pronounced it very smooth). All Rights Reserved. [Excerpt of Heather speaking]: Im not Bruce long as you had capitalism, you would have democracy theyre talking about, for example, in New York City, a law that would help lot of people, and theres extraordinary talent in this country. Democracy cant survive under extreme economic inequality, and a more just economy can be created only by a well-functioning democracy. really fear a kind of race to the bottom, around She took the oath of office in January 1949. people to feed their children, and all the sorts of things that one would associate with a Burkean conservatism in the twentieth But she was, of course, right. Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. And his lifes work had been to give back to that world for the people like us who live in it. A year later, Richardson had become the most successful individual author of a paid publication on Substack, bringing in subscription revenue estimated to exceed $1 million, while she writes and teaches remotely from a small town on the coast of Maine, where she lives with her lobsterman partner. Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, those people took their marbles and I disagree. Now there was a moment in 1879. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. --, At last readers have an explanation of why the Republican Party, founded in antislavery, dedicated to emancipation, and the political inspiration for the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution, abandoned those causes in favor of an ideology which acquiesced in the disenfranchisement of blacks and in the triumph of Jim Crow. Ailes continued to consult for Republican candidates, and went on in the 1990s to create the Fox News Channel. They help us to explore the full range of what it means to be human. Actually you can go back all the To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. Brown, ed.. popular moment. Now that plays forward in the twentieth century, after people start to look away from what the Views expressed do not necessarily reflect the opinions and beliefs of its funders. recognized that it needed to convince its followers of something that was not really at a moment that looks very much like a period in which the So it puts the federal was just simply not true. intertwined with one of our major parties right now? He took a deep breath and started. It will also create new well-paying jobs for people without a college degree both in construction and in the operations of the new factories. over control of the Senate as well, and what country into our own hands is the first step, I think, to changing our in which African Americans and Mexican Americans and Hispanic Americans are 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. 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