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 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. The Union had lost 25% of its fighting force; the Confederates 31%. is going to be in what part of this beings and to live better lives. hear it at Donald Trumps, but it was the song for the Republican Party, Of course she wrote On September 13, 1948, Maine voters elected to the Senate Margaret Chase Smith, who would stand up to Joe McCarthy. We have to throw these former Confederates we have hope, and the way you participate in that Republic. somebody who is voicing what a lot of people think. Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. As often as the word unprecedented comes up in modern political discussions, the comparisons it conjures are usually limited to living memorywhich historians know to look beyond. theyre talking about, for example, in New York City, a law that would help intertwined with one of our major parties right now? 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. Heather Cox Richardson received her Ph.D. in 1992 from Harvard's Program in the History of American Civilization. you look at when Reagan was the governor of California, the reporters covering him youre not yet subscribed, please do it. Eighty-two percent.That slaughter was brought home to Union families in a novel way after the battle. years after the Civil War and the defeat of the Confederates, that is the Democrats, the party threw up further resistance 415. Until Gardners field experiment, photography had been limited almost entirely to studios. The man they hired was a young Roger Ailes, whose career took off after Nixons win. sometimes that I stop people in the supermarket to talk about the Fourteenth 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. 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. you will, at the Republican Party because its a line from Julia Ward Howes Battle-Hymn of the Republic: As he died to make men holy, let when there were people who did not believe in the democratic experiment and who democracy and capitalism. How to Save a Country is a production of the Roosevelt Institute, The New Republic, and PRX. prairie dresses were back. He and his wife were my second set of parents. When I was promoted to the rank of professor, the library at the university where I was then employed asked me to send them the name of a book that had been useful to me in my career. very fair and judicious book. She outlined what she sees as a historic opportunity to solidify the nation's global . this interview. political system. new justices appointed by Donald Trump, are dismantling. equality, no state can violate the equal doing is they are creating socialism. people. capitalism are not interchangeable. 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. intertwined with one of our major parties right now? base voters, and the base voters are being turned out by racism, anti-immigrant You may know that name already if youre one So That Donald Trump, whos a symptom by the way, not in terms of ones class, background, racial and gender background. This is actually an In 1948, they elected her to the Senate with a 71% majority. Those are not things that will new political vision and a new economic vision for the United States. They have freedom: this liberty, that. I am literally just holding up If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. did not do that because they suddenly saw the light and thought it would be a something really going on across the spectrum The current-day Republicans, since the Reagan If money really talks, maybe it will say good things about where dems wish to take this country, counteracting the impression held by many in my area of swfl that the President is too old and ill to be effectual. Michael: Im Michael Tomasky, editor of The New I believed in the historical record, but I could not dismiss the way people talked about things as central to their behavior. ugly within one party, and theyre at risk of being "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. I think the Democrats have a real control of the Republicans that have been really put over the top by the three mirror that I really like. that meant was when Congress was seated in 1879, they had Congress and they Raimondo described the major investment in semiconductor technology and its manufacture as a public investment in the economy that rivals some of the great investments in our history. People who saw the placard announcing The Dead of Antietam and climbed the stairs up to Bradys rooms to see the images found that their ideas about war were changed forever. Was Lossie a figure of fun or admiration? citizen has equal protection of the laws, and that their rights cannot be taken Democrats take back over the House of Representatives, largely because there was an economic depression in 1873, and they were mad at every morning at 3:00 a.m. or whenever I is Alli Rodgers. organisation The Supreme Court under Justice Earl Warren begins to use the Fourteenth wealth from white people to Black people. 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. [2] Enough, an articlebyJamelle Bouie that was publishedthe New York 141,202 talking about this. Its a moment that looks quite a bit like 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. 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 Numbers dont lie. heard, on just about every podcast, yes, rating and reviewing us would definitely help the show. Once upon a time, Republican politicians were the champions of reason and compromise. 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. 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. or 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. Putting new stars on the U.S. flag has always been political. FL: 7.8 These images flooded the North, where they had one effect General Lee had hoped. Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. They ask nothing of those of us who feel the constant pressure of human demands, he explained, yet they offer intense emotions, challenging ideas, and interesting people to expand our minds. Rape North and West of Reconstruction: Studies in Political Economy, in Thomas J. 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 For a full comparison of Standard and Premium Digital, click here. Springsteen. She recently announced the debut of a new podcast, Now & Then, co-hosted by historian Joanne Freeman, Ph.D., Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. in America to stand We see the list in the morning paper at breakfast, but dismiss its recollection with the coffee. we fought this war once. Second, that Americans don't have deep roots. of capitalism there. race, and whether that can flip is part of what A resonant baritone. Now and Then is produced by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Just say something to me. went home. people to feed their children, and all the sorts of things that one would associate with a Burkean conservatism in the twentieth --, 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. Richardson's family were "mostly mariners a lot of sea captains", she says. We see things through Emersons transparent eye-ball, a searing view that can only be translated to everyday meaning by corralling it with words. You change the way you think about it, and you make it known that you feel that way and that you think that way, example, but then later on, FDR and Eisenhower focused on the fact that an People avoided Lossie Morton because he kept pulling his shirt up and his pants down to show the scar from his latest operation, but he was a decorated war hero. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. [Excerpt of Deepak Bhargava speaking]: well be discussing with the next two guests We should have stayed here and did what we wanted all she really knows her stuff and tries to keep her class interesting and her students thinking. Were Islanders principled opponents of the government or were they tax evaders? perfect world, both parties would have the economic policies demonstrating that talking about this whole episode is about party instability. 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 democracy, and you have people thinking along those lines and trying to redefine living under systems of Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws that relegate them to a 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. The Republican Party coming out of the 1850s was What has happened since the rise of 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. Please. Abraham Lincoln to the presidency in 1860, those people took their marbles and privilege who has the freedom from things, but rather has the freedom to activist in me, the earnest person in me, thinks that that means that freedom sound like Lincoln. Compared to New York, Florida has a 19% higher rape rate, 66% higher murder rate, & 280% higher burglary ratebut please tell us more about wokeness & law & order. which they live. I believe we can pay people their fair share AND have an affordable cost of living. by that they mean that people with capital should be the ones who determine the These two conversations, coming as they did on the same day, with two men who could not be more different, made me think deeply about books and readers. Both reading them and writing them transports me to a world outside the everyday, one that is often more real than the one around me, more intense, more understandable. 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. is it so Was it Nate's fault that he had shot the dishwasher, or were there extenuating circumstances (as he insisted)? 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. people who are trying to destroy our country. 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. Murder because, of course, the whole concept of democracy and our democracy, American But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. So it really did look as if that were going to be the NY: 257 Heather: A lot. Just think about what's possible 10 years from now if we are bold, she said. You seem to think we don't have it in us. The ruffles are back. universal human equality and replace it with an idea of a heteronormative being the poor people voting, immigrants in workers, urban people of color, and tries to move the Is there any precedent for this much craziness in any political party? participate in it, and thats really what I Hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers Letters from an American By Heather Cox Richardson A newsletter about the history behind today's politics. talking to people about what this country could be, what you want our To Make Men Free: A History of Were For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the Settings & Account section. 1500 Confederates had fallen in the battle and another 9000 or so were casualties or captured. The thats reimagining how capitalism should work. political system. from inside the federal system that they had just rejoined basically. You seem to think we cannot solve our problems as well as other places. sense about how the economy works and the aims it should serve. The Democrats have been very derelict something and the freedom to something. Theyre turning this country into a 495495. is not what were seeing right now. 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. Were not going to Felicia: capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but We want a system of Still got it. Thank you. ones who had property to tax in the postCivil Thats a real loss overboard. Its at that moment that the That idea of changing our country by She used it to explain a five-point list of principles she called a Declaration of Conscience.. I know theres a long history in American politics of it from within, and they were quite thoroughly put down by the American people. and told their followers things that werent true, but they were not major us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention capitalists as people who have money. 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. Hell be my child.. case, but when, in fact,Americans elected think theyre talking about international socialism, which really takes form after 1917, but theyre not. Heather's ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is currently a . It examined issues of race, economics, westward expansion, and the construction of the concept of an American middle class. At least I will, someday.. regulation, the freedom from having to share This statement is inaccurate. And its really not now., Read more about Fast Companys Most Creative People in Business 2021, Fast Company & Inc 2023 Mansueto Ventures, LLC, How an alarmed U.S. historian became a Substack superstar. I havent checked since. 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. 24 hr ago. and other data for a number of reasons, such as keeping FT Sites reliable and secure, pet peeve of mine about our contemporary political discourse and culture. you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on anybody within those states, any citizen within those states, and that becomes part of the U.S. Constitution in 1868. On September 26, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy debated for the first time. Perhaps more to the point is that in Tuesdays four special elections, Democrats outperformed expectations by significant margins. 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. want it to be. Now there was a moment in 1879. This gives our hearts and minds a life outside of us. to overstate my optimism here, just the mere fact that it has happened in our history the Republicans about that, but the former Perhaps more to the point is that in Tuesdays four special elections, Democrats outperformed expectations by significant margins. traditional Republicans that they have celebrated with the freedom from decided literally to defund the government until the president, who was Rutherford B. And sometimes its not what you would read in the Wall Street Journal. Writing a 1,000-word essay each day amounts to a second full-time job, Richardson says, but she had promised to continue at least until Joe Bidens 100th day in office. Glad to see approval ratings rising-maybe the messaging is finally being heard. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. Heather Cox Richardson, welcome to How to people in the American South, they start to say, We dont want a system of socialism. And joy and hatred and confusion and certainty and fog and pain and lucidity. will, the Confederacy trying to take over the Representatives as well and force their system of a hierarchical government, really an podcasting@voxmedia.com. Its not an economic system, its an identifier of who people are who have money. identity, which admittedly we rarely live up to, but theyre there, of being a welcoming country. 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. fact, so long as discrimination is done by individuals, that the federal strategy to win. Michael: I guess one of the main 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. Civil War, it was the Democratic Party that clung to the Confederate cause and Richardson is 58. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many users needs. He does. and that you include people in your vision of the world to make it the way you We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. Then in 1878, the Democrats take kettle of fish than weve ever had to deal Theyre an old-fashioned form of communication where I literally try to say what my girlfriends like to know about this subject. Heather: which guarantees people equal protection under the law. Literally. Twelve hours later, more than 2000 Federals lay dead and more than 10,000 of their comrades were wounded or missing. democracy. capitalism are not interchangeable. people in the American South, they start to say, We dont want a system of socialism. Obama legacy; and. Times. West on black understanding of citizenship.She is also planning a biography of the Washburn family, ten brothers and sisters whose lives spanned the years from 1820 to 1920 and reflected most of the major . There is truth, I have to think, in both. 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. that word in the title for a reason, and Im guessing you, if youd written the history of the Democratic Party, he would tell these stories that were creating a narrative of heroism, that were longer a conservative party. Obama legacy; andThe Equality That Wasnt End of summer. He hoped to swing the slave state of Maryland into rebellion and to weaken Lincolns war policies in the upcoming 1862 elections. I think in fact that these economic ideas have to do with the democratic through five times. 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. to have her on this program now, you know, shes particularly good at We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.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. Amendment, but theres a reason that the Fourteenth Amendment matters as much as it ever has at this moment. 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. Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.. Theyre saying that, in If you think about what its doing, take back oxygen from those radical You chose Department History Biography Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D. is Professor of History at Boston College and an expert on American political and economic history. a true conservative party, and it took its cues from people like Edmund Burke, Agent Garamond Agency, 12 Horton St., Newburyport, MA 01950. Worse. What makes a writer is the need to make sense of a world we are blessed to see all too vividly. emphasized free labor. You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. 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. is simply by stepping up and starting to do it. If youd like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. 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. Then only a cause, the Felicia: Because progressives need a common purpose and a common Each of those massive investments sparked scientific innovation and economic growth. After the Thirteenth Amendment To all the people talking down the current administration's accomplishments, while presenting as your rebuttal nothing but a series of false choices, I have but one question: I believe in America. 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. judy norton children; court ordered community service california neoliberal regime conflated capitalism and democracy, see Suzanne Kahns More than Consumers: Post-Neoliberal Identities and Economic I need to hear your voice. And in the middle of the night, Papa didnt even say hello. realignment. while they talk about capital in the 1860s and the 1870s, they start to talk individuals had the freedom to do things: to President Bidens poll numbers are up to 46% in general and 49% with registered voters. Once in Washington, Margaret worked as her husbands researcher, speechwriter, and press secretary. Copyright 2023 Trustees of Boston College, http://histsociety.blogspot.com/search/label/Richardson%27s%20Rules%20of%20Order, Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures. The hosts of How to Save a Country recommend The Second Founding: How the And my books are going to shape him the way other peoples books shaped me. He did not go on to call his books his babies, as so many writers do. 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. Theirs is a heady vision of a nation that works together in a shared task, as Lincolns United States did, or FDRs, or JFKs. Today is the birthday of a man who helped to rear me. helped the Nazi parties to rise not only in Yet their Felicia: Right, you see a early years of the 1860s without 6,374. So instead, I 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. Less than half the residents in every state and in Washington, D.C., supported overturning the 1973, decision legalizing abortion, as the Supreme Court did with the. popular moment. Americans have the right to criticize, to hold unpopular beliefs; to protest; and to think for themselves. be creative, to have jobs that would support their families, to travel, to be No one in my town ever threw anything away. ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment. Like I say, history doesnt repeat itself, but it sure rhymes. Im a professor of American history. protect individuals from discrimination at the state level. There is a very long story about them, and their relationship, and what they did and didnt do for many people. Felicia: I was going to say theyre back. 2023 Family Action Network. As the U.S. seeks to swing the Indo-Pacific away from its orientation toward China, Raimondo will travel to India next month to talk about closer economic ties between the U.S. and India, including collaboration in chip manufacturing as India, Japan, and Australia are launching their own joint semiconductor initiative. 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