#177 How the South Won the Civil War w/ Heather Cox Richardson
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2020
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
The military engagements of the US Civil War came to an end in 1865, but the ideology of the confederacy was not so easily defeated. In this episode we speak with Dr. Heather Cox Richardson about her new book How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America and how the worldview of antebellum southern elites came to be embraced by the "movement conservatives" who are at the helm of the modern Republican party. Heather also talks about how she's able to make history relatable to a general audience, her writing process, and why she is fearful, but optimistic, about the future of democracy in the United States.
Dr. Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College and the author of six books on US history. Her "Letters from An American" are published almost every day on her facebook page and on substack, where you can subscribe to support her work. You can follow her on twitter at @HC_Richardson.
The full unedited video of this conversation is available on our Patreon page.
For more on Dr. Richardson's work, check out The Road to Now #38 The History of the Republican Party from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump w/ Heather Cox Richardson.
This episode was edited by Ben Sawyer
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer and this is The Road to Now. |
| 0:08.0 | This week's guest is Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. |
| 0:11.0 | She just wrote a new book. It's incredible. |
| 0:13.0 | It's called How the South Won the Civil War, Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing |
| 0:17.5 | Fight for the Soul of America. |
| 0:19.5 | It's published by Oxford University Press back in April. |
| 0:22.3 | And the reason I'm recording this little intro here is because a lot of you who already know |
| 0:26.8 | Dr. Richardson know that she writes these amazing Facebook posts and she publishes on |
| 0:31.0 | Substact. |
| 0:31.8 | And recently someone published something fake under her name. |
| 0:36.3 | So we just want to make sure that you guys are skeptical |
| 0:38.4 | out there as always. I mean, you go to look up Dr. Richardson. Do a little fact checking. Make |
| 0:42.4 | sure you're not finding something fake because she's established such an incredible reputation |
| 0:46.1 | for her work. And that makes her target of people who are stealing her identity. So go find |
| 0:52.3 | the real Dr. Richardson and avoid the fakes. Finally, just wanted to |
| 0:56.8 | say thanks to everyone who joined us in the room for this conversation. These Sunday night conversations |
| 1:01.2 | we've been doing on Patreon have been incredible. If you want to be in the room for one of our |
| 1:06.6 | upcoming recordings or you want to see the video, the uncut video of this conversation, go to our |
| 1:11.9 | Patreon page. That's patreon.com slash the road to now. Sign up. You can get tons of bonus material |
| 1:17.7 | there and then be there when our recordings happen live. Thanks to everyone who supports us there. |
| 1:21.9 | We hope to see some new faces soon. But more than anything, right now, we hope that you enjoy |
| 1:27.2 | this episode with the wonderful |
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