Heather Cox Richardson
speaker
7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 86 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 26.
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You are definitely in the majority if you believe that the wealthiest nation in the world ought to do the best job of funding public education and making sure it works.
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Not this Republican approach, which is to literally eliminate the Department of Education.
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You're not alone if you think that in any decent economy one job ought to be enough.
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And you're certainly not alone if you believe that a woman's health care decisions ought to be up to her and no one else.
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That in a free country you should get to be who you are and love who you love and live a life of your choosing.
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when you believe these things, you're not just not alone.
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You're part of a powerful majority, really a supermajority of the American people.
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So whether you're a Democrat, an independent, or someone who has generally voted Republican in the past, most voters want the same things right now, to be led and represented by normal people who are good at getting things done.
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People want leaders who respect those who disagree or vote differently instead of calling them the enemy.
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People who know that God does not belong to a political party in the United States of America.
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Most voters want to elect leaders who are not simply trying to rebuild the past, but are trying to create something new and better.
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Letters from an American was written and read by Heather Cox Richardson.
It was produced at Soundscape Productions, Dedham, Massachusetts.
Recorded with music composed by Michael Moss.
August twenty first, twenty twenty six.
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On august twenty first, eighteen thirty-one, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about seventy of his enslaved and free black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slave holding and the dangers it presented to their own safety.
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Turner and his friends traveled from house to house in their neighborhood in Southampton County, Virginia, freeing enslaved people and murdering about sixty of the white men, women, and children they encountered.
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Their goal, Turner later told an interviewer, was to carry terror and devastation wherever we went.
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State militia put down the rebellion in a couple of days, and both the legal system and white vigilantes killed at least two hundred black Virginians, many of whom were not involved in Turner's bid to end enslavement.
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Turner himself was captured in October, tried in November, sentenced to death, and hanged.
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