Dr. Heather Cox Richardson on Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, Part 1 of 2

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown

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Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Self-improvement

4.6 • 24.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In Part 1 of my conversation with historian Dr. Heather Cox Richardson, we talk about the current threats to American democracy, what's at stake in November, and how we can strengthen our country if we can find the political will. They say don’t meet your heroes, but I’m so glad I did — this is one of my all time favorite conversations. I love how Heather doesn’t just look at history as a sequence of failures — she also finds the possibilities, creativity, and hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone I'm Brine Brown and this is unlocking us.
0:03.0	And welcome back to our eight-part series that I'm calling on my heart and mind.
0:15.8	We kicked off the series with my conversation with Valerie Core on the power of revolutionary
0:19.6	love and being a sage warrior.
0:22.1	I also talked to Dr. Sarah Lewis on her just life
0:26.2	reorganizing new book, The Unseen Truth. Roxanne Gay and I talked about her
0:31.0	provocative new essay on Black Gun Ownership and my friend Mary
0:35.5	Claire Haver and I talked about menopause and what it means to get great medical care for the entirety of our lives as women.
0:49.1	We have a couple of episodes left after this two-parter, where I'll be talking to my sisters about grief and
0:54.8	joy and love and in this two-parter, oh my god I'm so excited y'all I this is like they
1:01.8	say never meet your heroes well let me tell you I have met
1:05.4	my hero one of them in Heather Cox Richardson the historian and we have an amazing just I think pretty mind-blowing two-part
1:18.4	podcast on democracy and her book Democracy Awakening and History and how we got here and what she's seeing
1:29.6	is just incredible. it about Dr. Heather Cox Richardson. She's a professor of history at Boston College.
1:44.9	She's written about the Civil War,
1:46.8	Reconstruction, the Guilded Age, and the American West
1:49.6	and award-winning books whose subject stretched
1:51.9	from the European settlement of the North American
1:55.2	continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration.
1:59.7	Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Guardian, among many other outlets, and she is co-host of the Vox Podcast now and then.
2:09.6	Without further ado, let's jump in and let's talk.
2:14.0	Now, yesterday and tomorrow.
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