Heather Cox Richardson

Professor and Author

Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College and an expert in nineteenth century America, specializing in politics and economics. Her nightly newsletter, Letters from an American, reaches 7 million readers.

Heather’s award-winning books span subjects from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the Gilded Age, the American West and the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She is the author, most recently, of the best-sellingDemocracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Jane Mayer called the book “a vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals.”

Her American Conversations series is available on YouTube, Substack, and Facebook. 250 to 250, a project designed to mark the 250^th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, airs on multiple social media platforms. And her articles and reviews have been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Guardian, among others.