Heather Cox Richardson

I'm good and I'm so pleased to be here.

I'm good and I'm so pleased to be here.

I'm good and I'm so pleased to be here.

So it's funny because I shouldn't maybe use the past tense, but I will. I was a pretty well-known American history professor. I had a number of books out, very well-received books out in American political and economic history. But you know, in many ways in our country, our different professions are siloed.

So it's funny because I shouldn't maybe use the past tense, but I will. I was a pretty well-known American history professor. I had a number of books out, very well-received books out in American political and economic history. But you know, in many ways in our country, our different professions are siloed.

So it's funny because I shouldn't maybe use the past tense, but I will. I was a pretty well-known American history professor. I had a number of books out, very well-received books out in American political and economic history. But you know, in many ways in our country, our different professions are siloed.

So while I think you would have been hard-pressed to find an academic historian who didn't know who I was, the crossover to the popular audience had been, you know, the Washington Post, the Guardian, places like that, where again, I wrote a lot. I even had a column for Salon years ago under Dave Daly, which was, you know, a really interesting experience. Yeah, he was a great, really great editor.

So while I think you would have been hard-pressed to find an academic historian who didn't know who I was, the crossover to the popular audience had been, you know, the Washington Post, the Guardian, places like that, where again, I wrote a lot. I even had a column for Salon years ago under Dave Daly, which was, you know, a really interesting experience. Yeah, he was a great, really great editor.

So while I think you would have been hard-pressed to find an academic historian who didn't know who I was, the crossover to the popular audience had been, you know, the Washington Post, the Guardian, places like that, where again, I wrote a lot. I even had a column for Salon years ago under Dave Daly, which was, you know, a really interesting experience. Yeah, he was a great, really great editor.

But I had a presence on Facebook in part because I'm a teacher and people always ask me questions and that was a good place to answer those questions. And I love to write. So I wrote essays there on any number of things, you know, about once a week. And in 2019, in September of 2019, I said to people what I thought the world looked like at that moment. And I just got flooded with questions.

But I had a presence on Facebook in part because I'm a teacher and people always ask me questions and that was a good place to answer those questions. And I love to write. So I wrote essays there on any number of things, you know, about once a week. And in 2019, in September of 2019, I said to people what I thought the world looked like at that moment. And I just got flooded with questions.

But I had a presence on Facebook in part because I'm a teacher and people always ask me questions and that was a good place to answer those questions. And I love to write. So I wrote essays there on any number of things, you know, about once a week. And in 2019, in September of 2019, I said to people what I thought the world looked like at that moment. And I just got flooded with questions.

So I started answering questions and one thing led to another. And I think I had a million followers on Facebook within a matter of weeks. And then it turned over into the newsletter as well. So I didn't really come out of nowhere. I just came from a different silo to a more popular audience.

So I started answering questions and one thing led to another. And I think I had a million followers on Facebook within a matter of weeks. And then it turned over into the newsletter as well. So I didn't really come out of nowhere. I just came from a different silo to a more popular audience.

So I started answering questions and one thing led to another. And I think I had a million followers on Facebook within a matter of weeks. And then it turned over into the newsletter as well. So I didn't really come out of nowhere. I just came from a different silo to a more popular audience.

Well, yeah, and I would say something that I've really learned, and that's that the other part of my story that I think is perhaps one of the things that people find interesting is I really am from a very small town in Maine, and I still live here, and I'm married to a lobsterman.

Well, yeah, and I would say something that I've really learned, and that's that the other part of my story that I think is perhaps one of the things that people find interesting is I really am from a very small town in Maine, and I still live here, and I'm married to a lobsterman.

Well, yeah, and I would say something that I've really learned, and that's that the other part of my story that I think is perhaps one of the things that people find interesting is I really am from a very small town in Maine, and I still live here, and I'm married to a lobsterman.

And there is a sense sometimes that people who don't have college degrees, as my husband does not, or that people who work in manual labor, as so many of my friends do, are stupid. And I know that's not the case because this is my world.

And there is a sense sometimes that people who don't have college degrees, as my husband does not, or that people who work in manual labor, as so many of my friends do, are stupid. And I know that's not the case because this is my world.