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This is On Point. I'm Megna Chakraberdi, and it's Friday, and I've always kind of felt like Fridays are a good day to take stock, or to take the long view.

And that's why today historian Heather Cox Richardson is with us.

She's author of the very popular substack letters from an American.

Her latest book is Democracy Awakening, and she's a professor of history at Boston College.

Professor Richardson, it's so good to have you across the table from me today.

Isn't it fun, Magna, thank you for having me.

So, you know that saying. I mean, you know it well about history. It doesn't repeat itself,

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