On April 1, 2025, Heather Cox Richardson, the author of the politically left-leaning Substack "Letters from an American" and a history professor at Boston College, posted (archived) on Facebook ...

We should be talking about how a white supremacist fascist regime is operating in real time in “land of the free and the home ...

Historian Heather Cox Richardson (who you know from her popular Substack Letters from an American) is now sounding the alarm, warning that this could set off a troubling ripple effect.

As historian Heather Cox Richardson notes, political candidates in early U.S. history would game elections by saying that their opponent was dead. Are there reasons to be hopeful about democracy?

NPR's A Martinez speaks with historian Heather Cox Richardson about the state of our democracy following this week's unprecedented removal of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.