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Heather Cox Richardson
A historian of the United States whose work traces the long contest between democracy and the forces that have sought to narrow it. Democracy Awakening sets the present moment in the sweep of the national history. How the South Won the Civil War argues that ideas defeated on the battlefield persisted in American politics long after. Her daily newsletter, written for a general readership, has made the historian's long view a part of millions of people's mornings.
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Democracy Awakening
The historian's long view of how American democracy has been challenged and reclaimed, written for the readers who start their mornings with her newsletter. Richardson sets...
How the South Won the Civil War
The argument that ideas defeated on the battlefield did not die there. Richardson traces how an oligarchic vision of who truly counts as an American migrated...