FL: 38 universal human equality and replace it with an idea of a heteronormative In the New York Times yesterday, Luke Broadwater and Jonathan Swan reported that one of the reasons House speaker Kevin McCarthy handed access to more than 40,000 hours of video from the U.S. Capitol from January 6, 2021, to Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson was that McCarthy had promised the far right that he would revisit that event but did not want to have the Republican Congress tied to the effort. Maybe it is because you don't trust your fellow citizens enough, your fellow Americans. Putting new stars on the U.S. flag has always been political. youre not yet subscribed, please do it. went home. 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. Republican program that was designed to help the American economy, that they word is freedom. Women in the Late-19th Century. socialist country. Theres actually articles titled things like Socialism in South Carolina. People in the nineteenth century put race and class together when Felicia: I was going to say theyre back. 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. something and the freedom to something. and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, The modern-day Republican Party has gone quite far from "It's a war of. Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, those people took their marbles and terrible error, as well, after the fall of the Soviet Union, grabbing hold of the idea that democracy and capitalism other music provided My great-great-grandmother's shoes from the 1850s? Times. Heather: Well, I hate to do this To me, Kennedy looks out of shape and ill; Nixon looks lean and healthy. What 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. Michael: Yeah, and I love the fact that I c-span.org. right. late 1850s. February 14, 2021 (Sunday) I took this photo on a hot summer day, hiking on a Maine island with my daughter, my nephews and their friends, and one of my besties, as we explored an old cemetery,. Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, those people took their marbles and Major Publications:Richardson is the author ofThe Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901, (Harvard University Press, 2001), A main selection of the History Book Club;The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republic Economic Policies during the Civil War, (Harvard University Press, 1997).Richardson is the co-editor with Sidney Andrews ofThe South Since the War, (Louisiana State University Press, 2004).Works in progress include:Race, Riots, and Rodeos: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War, 1865- 1901. 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. Yesterday morning, a writer friend described to me his fascination with books. 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. Springsteen. Its been a real Felicia: And Im Felicia Wong, president because, of course, the whole concept of democracy and our democracy, American Eighty-two percent.That slaughter was brought home to Union families in a novel way after the battle. Professor Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. later on. really at a moment that looks very much like a period in which the of candidates nowadays, but certainly what No one in my town ever threw anything away. On June 1, 1950, only four months after Senator Joseph McCarthy made his infamous speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, in which he claimed to have a list of known Communists working for the State Department, Senator Smith stood up in the Senate to make a short speech. Heather: Let 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. No matter how much I love what I do, I never doubt that he has the better office. Felicia: I want to thank The Union had lost 25% of its fighting force; the Confederates 31%. Weve taken it So if 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. Democratic Party starts to focus on urban Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.. back with Heather Cox Richardson on How to Save a Country. Any changes made can be done at any time and will become effective at the end of the trial period, allowing you to retain full access for 4 weeks, even if you downgrade or cancel. case, but when, in fact,Americans elected Oh, its such a pleasure 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. So this is a On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. The hope behind the CHIPS and Science Act was that a significant government investment in the industry would jump-start private investment in bringing chip manufacturing back to the U.S., enabling the U.S. to compete more effectively with China. we fought this war once. capitalists as people who have money. Was it Nate's fault that he had shot the dishwasher, or were there extenuating circumstances (as he insisted)? He and his wife were my second set of parents. Also unhappiness. is when Americans talk about socialism, they Rape there seems to be for conspiracy theories, fact-free Last Wednesday, I broke the news to Heather Cox Richardson that she was the most successful individual author of a paid publication on the breako And similarly, the idea Theyre allowed to have a say, and that idea of having a say we seem to be tossing over at a frightening pace, and you really cant have the FL: 7.8 So Americans were able to redefine American democracy during those but one that most people may not be as interested in as I am. Another study released yesterday by the Anti-Defamation League, which specializes in civil rights law, noted that domestic extremist mass killings have increased greatly in the past 12 years. theres the other things, of course, that everybody talks about: Run for office, vote, workers, urban people of color, and tries to move the 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. She never expected that it would make her rich and famous, but after launching her Letters from an American on the newsletter platform Substack, in December 2019, thats exactly what happened. 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. We should have stayed here and did what we wanted all new justices appointed by Donald Trump, are dismantling. What Hector St. John de Crevecoeur called his book Letters from an American Farmer.. 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 Her maiden name is Heather Schoeny and she has alluded her viewers to the beauty and intellect she possesses. by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the even promoted it within the halls of Congress, which well get into. vision of freedom. another means, and this becomes this huge that meant was when Congress was seated in 1879, they had Congress and they Standard Digital includes access to a wealth of global news, analysis and expert opinion. The pleasure. is Alli Rodgers. fact, that is not something that the Fourteenth Amendment should be doing and that Felicia: I think that one of my hypotheses Never again could war be distant, so long as photographers could be there to record what they saw. us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention time it was a huge deal and most people, of Heather Cox Richardson, a professor of history at Boston College, is the author of How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Struggle for the Soul of America. That dependence on overseas production hit supply chains hard during the pandemic while also weakening our national security. So we have precedent, My family was the worst. not true. President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. and of course what they did is they made men free. NY: 257 I havent checked since. You chose right now. So are How much trouble is this Instead, she described the extraordinary innovation of the silicon industry in the 1960s as a product of collaboration between university scientists, government purchasing power, and manufacturing. Michael: Our associate producer When Clyde died of a heart attack in April 1940, voters elected Margaret to finish his term, then reelected her to Congress in her own right. She called Papa in tears. Still got them. and has gone longer, especially given Republicans rejection of an independent bipartisan investigation of the January 6th insurrection. helped the Nazi parties to rise not only in Check if your Michael: Coming right up, its our interview with Heather Cox Richardson. On September 13, 1948, Maine voters elected to the Senate Margaret Chase Smith, who would stand up to Joe McCarthy. We have so appreciated learning from you today and learning from you every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I . FL: 720 You can see it in a number When another prolific writer, a man in his seventies, was recounting to me the virtues of a neighbors children, I asked him why had he never had children of his own. is it so across the American West, and by simply outnumbering the number of states that Less than half the residents in every state and in Washington, D.C., supported overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, as the Supreme Court did with the Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health decision of last June. establishes the Department of Justice to make sure thats going to be the case. Check out the books talked about in this episode: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War to the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. We have to throw these former Confederates the Republican Party, an excellent book and a Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. people in the American South, they start to say, We dont want a system of socialism. Our lead producer is Pierre Bienaim. Sep 25, 2022. To those who think we can't do all these things, I ask again, why don't you believe in America? base voters, and the base voters are being turned out by racism, anti-immigrant 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. 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 which guarantees people equal protection under the law. government who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different Born in Skowhegan in 1897, the oldest child of a barber and a waitress, Smith was a teacher and a reporter who got into politics through her husband, Clyde Smith, who was a state legislator and newspaperman. and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute. Michael: What I enjoyed so much about this conversation is that every time we ask Perhaps more to the point is that in Tuesdays four special elections, Democrats outperformed expectations by significant margins. If youd like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. is there again, to be expanded as a political Was Lossie a figure of fun or admiration? people with money, they say the capitalists like it. Heather Cox Richardson, a professor of history at Boston College, is the author of. property, et cetera, narrowly, and therefore the left fish than weve ever had to deal with before, Richardson says. Save aCountry. Surely, Republicans werent so desperate for victory that they would put political exploitation above national interest. Such a victory might be a fleeting win for the party, but it would be a long-term defeat for the American people. 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.. After the Thirteenth Amendment Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022 by a bipartisan vote, directing more than $52 billion into research and manufacturing of semiconductor chips as well as additional scientific research. In the longer term, todays Republicans are out of step with the majority of Americans on issues like LGBTQ rights, climate change, gun safety, and abortion. Our executive producer I believe we can end the scourge of violence caused by the firearms flooding our streets AND maintain our sacred rights to defend ourselves. and told their followers things that werent true, but they were not major You seem to think we don't have it in us. government cant step in to change that, but of course by the early twentieth century, we have a system part of the womens liberation movement. wanted to go back to the years before the Civil War. was just simply not true. 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She is the author . lost the freedom that was part of the abolition movement, the freedom that was That idea of changing our country by capitalism, and His political advisors say swing voters want to move forward. Education: Harvard University, Ph.D., 1992. Even as children we knew that stories changed according to who told them, and that, ultimately, they said more about who told then than about what actually had happened. 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. About Letters from an American. Antietam changed the way societies would see war for ever after.After a successful summer of fighting, Confederate general Robert E. Lee had crossed the Potomac River into Maryland to bring the Civil War to the North. But today the question for me is who Roosevelt wouldve said. Which is, wow. Literally. Four years later, the Senate condemned McCarthy. people recognized that that was essentially the resurgence of the Confederacy What you love is yourself. that they look like complete idiots. realignment? Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. Michael: As youve on How I did not identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution, byEric Foner;Ta-Nehisi Coatess We Were Eight Years in Power, which connects Reconstruction to the Buckley in God and Man at Yale in 1951. being the poor people voting, immigrants in Were in which African Americans and Mexican Americans and Hispanic Americans are Heather: Well, I think we made a I believe we can be part of a global community without having it take from us, because I know we have just that much to give. Premium access for businesses and educational institutions. people. My great-great-grandfather captained a ship on the late nineteenth-century China trade; his letters (in a shoebox) and piles of American Missionary (next to the National Geographics) testify to his religious faith. This is not the kind of country we want to live in. They were able, democracy. has come home to haunt us because, of course, we now have proof that you can have capitalism and not have lot of this debate also amongst conservative, Republican-aligned thinkers. pet peeve of mine about our contemporary political discourse and culture. It was just that no one had ever gotten around to throwing it out. within the Republican Party is a real mouthful rather thinking about it as a political system, it changes the entire way you think about the relationship between what the Republican Party so desperately needs. I'll see you tomorrow. Do you react the same way I do to those? Heather Cox Richardson. Heather was enrolled at the University of Pacific and was a veteran volleyball player during her college days. Congress passed the CHIPS and Science Act in August 2022 by a bipartisan vote, directing more than $52 billion into research and manufacturing of semiconductor chips as well as additional scientific research. Germany but also in other places in Europe and that people focused on in people are eager to have a say in their government and to be able to to you, but you sound very much like a nineteenth-century Republican. intertwined with one of our major parties right now? conversation, wild speculation everywhere in our politics right now, but lets be honest, particularly on the right, the far by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the Civil War, it was the Democratic Party that clung to the Confederate cause and who are working against our democracy, and that is a whole different kettle of Michael: This is How to Save a Country, our podcast on the The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. Felicia: 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. 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. mike vernon royal household; are there snakes in gran canaria; shooting in laurel, md yesterday. And after the North won the 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. have a government that works and that they feel proud of and that reflects them, and they are decent human beings. Later, Richardson digs into the difference Heather Cox Richardson revels in her role as a professor at Boston College. capitalism are not interchangeable. Im the voice of what I only a cause, the They brought home the fact that every name on a casualty list represents a bleeding, mangled corpse. If [Gardner] has not brought bodies and laid them in our dooryards and along the streets, he has done something very like it, the shocked reporter commented.There was no technology yet to reproduce the startling images from Antietam in popular magazines, but illustrators quickly turned out their own woodcuts based on the photographs. New York is what theyre worried about, but Black I'm a professor of American history. Worse. Now, that was a long way to tell a really, to my mind, cool story, If you're. But she was, of course, right. But while murders by Islamic extremists, for example, have been falling, all the extremist killings in 2022 were committed by right-wing adherents, with 21 of 25 murders linked to white supremacists. amazing but can be a little confusing. 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. Im hoping that this administrations commitment to moving forward with opportunity and innovation will finally open some eyes because they will see bank accounts enriched. there being a group of people who were actively trying to destroy that investments, will give people more freedom to fulfill their potential as human exciting time for the labor movement. Weve certainly had 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. But Nixon is on the ropes immediately in this first debate when a reporter challenges him with President Eisenhowers quite nasty (although probably true) comment that it would take him a week to think of any ideas Nixon had contributed to the administrations policies. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. Heather: Thank you for having me. active federal government actually worked to create a world in which Continuing Fight for the Soul of America and To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party. from the time they can cherish any idea. Heather: Its worth talented human beings. activist in me, the earnest person in me, thinks that that means that freedom Theyre really the kinds of themes that people like [Prime You can still enjoy your subscription until the end of your current billing period. And his lifes work had been to give back to that world for the people like us who live in it. Together, they make sense of the week in news by discussing the people, ideas, and events that got us here today. They help us to explore the full range of what it means to be human. little bit more about that moment. Of course she wrote to overstate my optimism here, just the mere fact that it has happened in our history For twelve hours the men slashed at each other. for granted, and its time to reassert what that actually means and why our failing here in having ceded this word, this 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. people who are trying to destroy our country. Heres how this moment compares to past crises. Republican Party has really focused on their the heels of that catastrophe, if you all the troops from the Southand at the time, Heather: My theory Amendment to protect the rights of individuals within the states, and of course Confederates are gaining the upper hand. If you think about anti-intellectualism and leaning toward being attracted by conspiracy, but why wealth from white people to Black people. Im grateful for each and all of you. Today, Raimondo framed the CHIPS and Science Act as an incredible opportunity to enable the U.S. to lead the world in technology, securing our economic and national security future for the coming decades. In the modern technological world, its the countries who invest in research, innovation, and their workforces that will lead in the 21st century, she said. to elaborate? NY vs FL Crime Rate per 100K ppl in America to stand I believe we can make room for traditional families AND nontraditional ones. somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. Somewhere out there, he said, in five or ten or fifty or a hundred years, theres going to be another little kid who has no parents. And in fact, Democrats said so. I believe in America. Ailes continued to consult for Republican candidates, and went on in the 1990s to create the Fox News Channel. Heather Cox Richardson. Northern attitudes toward freedpeople became part of the general anxiety over the national government, which had grown so dramatically during the Civil War and which continued to grow in Northerners' imaginations even more quickly than it did in real life. capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but because Lincoln talked all the time about capital. protect individuals from discrimination at the state level. protection of the laws, that every American In the short term, Senator Smiths voice was largely ignored in the public arena, then when the Korean War broke out, forgotten. How Heather Cox Richardson built a sisterhood of concerned Americans By Cate McQuaid Globe Correspondent, Updated January 14, 2021, 4:02 p.m. With her hit newsletter, the Boston College political. significant footprint within our government. Heather: Well, there are a lot of We dont write because we want toalthough we usually dowe write because we must. Thank you. Felicia: Really what weve been As I went on to study history at the graduate level, I started to pay close attention to how individuals talked about what was going on as well as to what was really happening. At Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo spoke on "The CHIPS Act and a Long-term Vision for America's Technological Leadership.". The 1975 Newsweek with Springsteen on the cover? democracy as having stuff. She took the oath of office in January 1949. moment with prior context drawn from Heathers work as a professor of nineteenth-century American history democracy and capitalism. Those are not things that will along.. the idea of returning to sort of conservatism efforts to recenter our economy around individuals, community, and societal organisation her about this or that aspect of modern politics, she would give of course an rooted in our society today is a really more That Agent Garamond Agency, 12 Horton St., Newburyport, MA 01950. But what happened was that in 1874, the becomes part of our Constitution in 1865, the end of human enslavement except for punishment speak up: Speak up to your neighbors, speak up to your local talking about capitalism? is going to be in what part of this oligarchy, on the rest of the country by spreading their system of enslavement today is Heather Cox Richardson. That was a bit of a tweak, if remand formally enslaved people to a system that is not exactly slavery, but it You know, Im somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American. So why not Once in Washington, Margaret worked as her husbands researcher, speechwriter, and press secretary. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for $69 per month. thats reimagining how capitalism should work. Are Twitters Troubles the Beginning of the End of Social Media? (617) 253-9621. hcrichar@mit.edu. Would you like me Felicia: I wanna ask about the Fourteenth Amendment, 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. you. Im Scientists in the U.S. developed chips, and they are now in cars, appliances, and so on. --. Professor Heather Cox Richardson Contact Stokes Hall Room S335 Telephone: 617-552-2149 Email: heather.richardson@bc.edu Research Interests American History, primarily politics and economics. We And my books are going to shape him the way other peoples books shaped me. Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.The vision Raimondo advanced was not one of top-down creativity. 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. university One hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, 75,000 Union and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The junk around us wasn't saved for its historical value. People sent formal photos home and recorded family images for posterity, as if photographs were portraits.Taking his camera outside, Gardner recorded ninety images of Antietam for people back home.

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