#235 Catching Up w/ Heather Cox Richardson

The Road to Now

Benjamin Sawyer

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Heather Cox Richardson returns to the show to talk history, politics, and life in general. Heather shares her thoughts on what history has to teach us about navigating division and finding unity, the sources she thinks are critical in following US policy, and why she remains optimistic despite increasing polarization in American society. She also discusses what she's learned from her public engagement work on facebook and from "Letters From an American," where she has published her thoughts daily for over two years now.

Dr. Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College and co-host of the Now & Then podcast (w/ Joanne Freeman). She is also the author of multiple books including West From Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War (Yale Univ. Press, 2008) and, most recently, How the South Won the Civil War (Oxford University Press, 2000). You can follow her on twitter at @HC_Richardson.

If you enjoy this episode, check out our previous conversations w/ Heather Cox Richardson in RTN episode #177 How the South Won the Civil War and #38 The History of the Republican Party.

This episode was edited by Gary Fletcher.

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0:00.0	I enjoy a good round of golf.
0:07.0	My grandfather was a great golfer, but it never caught on with me when I was a child.
0:11.0	So I picked up the sport a few years ago.
0:13.0	I threw my clubs in the bus, and I play as often as I can when I'm out on tour.
0:18.0	One thing I've come to appreciate is a great fitting, great looking polo shirt at the
0:22.6	right price. After trying a few different brands, I came across cricket that spelled C-R-I-Q-U-E-T.
0:29.1	I immediately fell in love with their timeless designs. All cricket shirts are made from super soft,
0:35.1	top-of-the-line fabrics. My personal favorite is the top shelf player's shirt.
0:39.8	It's got a four-button placet hard collar with removable collar stays.
0:43.8	It reminds me of the shirts my grandfather used to wear.
0:46.9	I feel as good wearing a cricket shirt on stage or a night out with my family as I do on the golf course.
0:53.4	Go to cricket shirts.com that's spelled
0:56.3	c r i q-u-et shirts.com put in the discount code road to now for 20% off your first order you're
1:04.5	going to dig these shirts heather cox richardson welcome back to the road to now oh i'm I'm thrilled to be here. You guys are like, I shouldn't say that. Never mind. I like being here. It's amazing because me and Bob have to, every time we have you on, me and Bob are like, how long is it an appropriate time to ask her to come back? Well, so I'm reading a new book and I'm actually not doing these for the most part, but you guys
1:28.9	ask them like, yeah, sure, you know.
1:30.9	That is such an honor.
1:32.3	And we won't ask you about your book because unless you want us to.
1:36.1	You can ask me next year.
1:37.2	I'm superstitious about talking about books beforehand.
1:41.6	Yeah, I get it.
1:42.9	Well, you've written several books.
1:45.2	And for those of the listeners here who have heard our previous conversations, they know that the first time I read your work was like when I was in graduate school, I read Western Mathematics.
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