How the Future Shapes Our National History with Heather Cox Richardson

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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On today’s episode of Here’s Where It Gets Interesting, Sharon interviews one of our most-requested guests. Listeners regularly write in and ask to hear a conversation between Sharon and political history expert Heather Cox Richardson. That day is today! Heather Cox Richardson shares how she believes the way we use language shapes how we see our political views, allies, and enemies. Together, Sharon and Heather also touch on the ways that our future may change our past. Tune in to understand what they mean.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome.
0:05.8	Today's guest is somebody who y'all have been asking me to have on the show since before
0:11.0	the show even began when I was just planning for it.
0:15.3	This person has been at the top of your most requested list for over 200 episodes and
0:21.0	she is finally here today Heather Cox Richards in.
0:25.6	She is one of the most subscribed to historians, she is a phenomenal podcast.
0:33.1	I don't know if other people do this, but I refer to her by her three initials, HCR.
0:39.7	You know that you're somebody important when you get three initials.
0:45.0	So let's dive into my conversation with Heather Cox Richards in.
0:50.5	I'm sharing it again.
0:52.1	Here's where it gets interesting.
0:57.8	Thank you so much for doing this.
0:59.1	Oh, I'm so excited.
1:01.0	You have been one of my most requested guests.
1:03.6	Literally for almost 200 episodes, people have been saying to me, we please have Heather
1:08.8	Cox Richards in on your show.
1:10.7	So you're finally here and I absolutely thrilled.
1:13.2	Well, it's lovely to be here.
1:14.6	I will say I have not really been doing podcasts or much media at all because I've been writing
1:19.3	a new book.
1:20.4	So yours is the first one I have done since I started to say yes again and we quite literally
1:25.6	put you on the calendar knowing that.
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