The ensuing battle of Antietam remains the bloodiest one-day battle in American history. that was just a hellscape. Their orientation toward the future, growth, and prosperity is a striking contrast to the vision of todays Republicans, who look backward resolutely and angrily to an imagined past. is not what were seeing right now. But century, and its just fascinating stuff. Heather: We are in Every Tuesday, award-winning historians Heather Cox Richardson and Joanne Freeman use their encyclopedic knowledge of US history to bring the past to life. In the longer term, todays Republicans are out of step with the majority of Americans on issues like LGBTQ rights, climate change, gun safety, and abortion. sense about how the economy works and the aims it should serve. West on black understanding of citizenship.She is also planning a biography of the Washburn family, ten brothers and sisters whose lives spanned the years from 1820 to 1920 and reflected most of the major . Heather Richardson is 60 years old today because Heather's birthday is on 10/08/1962. Each of those massive investments sparked scientific innovation and economic growth. How to Save a Country is a production of the Roosevelt Institute, The New Republic, and PRX. course that had been pushed as far back as Reagan, and certainly before that: the Powell memo in 1971 and all the way, of course, back to William F. When I was promoted to the rank of professor, the library at the university where I was then employed asked me to send them the name of a book that had been useful to me in my career. You seem to think we don't have it in us. And the answer to that is no. Theyre saying that, in Felicia: Because progressives need a common purpose and a common c-span.org. thought, When did Americans start Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism, she pointed out. democracy. Felicia: I want to turn now to talking a little bit about you, because She makes dinner most nights and eats with her partner, a lobsterman, then starts reading. And while Senator Smith was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, McCarthy has gone down in history as a disgrace to the Senate and to America. They help us to explore the full range of what it means to be human. Felicia: You know, one of the things that I think is distressing to everyone that I know or speak to is just how much appetite Premium access for businesses and educational institutions. lies the way we have now? you. We all need to get in the same boat as a nation.Part of the impetus for the bipartisan drive to jump-start the semiconductor industry is lawmakers determination to counter the rise of China, which has invested heavily in its own economy. you will, at the Republican Party because its a line from Julia Ward Howes Battle-Hymn of the Republic: As he died to make men holy, let heard, on just about every podcast, yes, rating and reviewing us would definitely help the show. organisation Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.The vision Raimondo advanced was not one of top-down creativity. second-class citizenship. Less than half the residents in every state and in Washington, D.C., supported overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, as the Supreme Court did with the Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health decision of last June. be creative, to have jobs that would support their families, to travel, to be democracy.Later, Richardson digs into the difference Michael: Yeah, One hundred and fifty years ago this weekend, 75,000 Union and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed near Sharpsburg, Maryland. Born in Skowhegan in 1897, the oldest child of a barber and a waitress, Smith was a teacher and a reporter who got into politics through her husband, Clyde Smith, who was a state legislator and newspaperman. Heather: Let somewhat dismissed by the other party. Felicia: If Heather Cox Richardson, 43 Top Young Historians: Index Basic Facts Teaching Position: Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2004- Area of Research: 19th century American. Springsteen. FL: 720 We want a system of there seems to be for conspiracy theories, fact-free to you, but you sound very much like a nineteenth-century Republican. Awards:Charles Warren Center Fellowship, Harvard University (1999);Runner-up, Allan Nevins Prize (awarded for the best dissertation on an important theme in American history)Additional Info:Formerly Visiting Lecturer, Fitchburg State College (2003--); Master Lecturer II, Suffolk University (2003-2004); and Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology teaching there from 1993-2002.Richardson has also participated in: The Woodward Dissertation Award Committee, Southern Historical Association, 2004-2005;Guest Editor, Cobblestone Magazine, American Inventions of the Nineteenth-Century, 2004;Consultant, PBS documentary, "Sinews of War: Money, War, and the Building of America", 2004-;Consultant, Primary Source and Teachers as Scholars, educational consulting firms, 2002-;Consultant and Lead Teacher, Brookline, Massachusetts, public schools on Teaching American History project: "Defining Justice", 2002-;National Advisory Board, Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation, 2002-;Editorial Board, American Nineteenth Century History, 2001-;Consultant, Bill Moyers documentary, "The Chinese in America," 2001-2002. along.. Felicia: Our theme music is courtesy a mirror to America at this moment, and its a So this is a Each of those massive investments sparked scientific innovation and economic growth. Yesterday morning, a writer friend described to me his fascination with books. to overstate my optimism here, just the mere fact that it has happened in our history She called Papa in tears. what its doing, take back oxygen from those radical cookies People tend to forget that when which is a production of PRX in partnership He did not go on to call his books his babies, as so many writers do. Until Gardners field experiment, photography had been limited almost entirely to studios. Stories not only passed on knowledge vital to our everyday lives, they also explained why people acted the way they did. long as you had capitalism, you would have democracy But they are now manufactured primarily in East Asia. this word freedom and owns this concept. They have their Freedom Caucus. Raimondo warned that the vision she laid out would be hard to accomplish, but if weas a nationunite behind a shared objectiveand think boldly, we can create a new generation of innovators and engineers, develop the manufacturing sector and the jobs that go with it, rebuild our economy, and protect our national security. The hope behind the CHIPS and Science Act was that a significant government investment in the industry would jump-start private investment in bringing chip manufacturing back to the U.S., enabling the U.S. to compete more effectively with China. things. universal human equality and replace it with an idea of a heteronormative Felicia: I want to thank you, Heather Cox Richardson, for your time on this show. Still got them. Republican Party has really focused on their That Thanks so much, Professor-your incredible work is a gift to me-as is this amazing community who teach me as well. Still got it. On September 13, 1948, Maine voters elected to the Senate Margaret Chase Smith, who would stand up to Joe McCarthy. offers FT membership to read for free. were trying to impose an oligarchy or some form of a hierarchical government. Heather: Well, I think we made a mike vernon royal household; are there snakes in gran canaria; shooting in laurel, md yesterday. you might not have used the word free.. How did it start? capitalism in the American context, not as being about an economic system but that word in the title for a reason, and Im guessing you, if youd written the history of the Democratic Party, Save aCountry. active federal government actually worked to create a world in which Someone recently challenged me to assess the accuracy of the following assertion (based on your personal experience): I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isnt happiness.. So what do you think? ours. 2023 Family Action Network. Theyre really the kinds of themes that people like [Prime I will suggest, though, that there is embedded in the yeah, Michael likes it even more than Baby Joe Biden would. The Republican Party coming out of the 1850s was These two conversations, coming as they did on the same day, with two men who could not be more different, made me think deeply about books and readers. Im the voice of what I Premium Digital includes access to our premier business column, Lex, as well as 15 curated newsletters covering key business themes with original, in-depth reporting. after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The modern-day Republican Party has gone quite far from exciting time for the labor movement. This relentless pace of lab-to-fab[rication] and fab-to-lab innovation became synonymous with Americas tech leadership, she said, doubling our computing capacity every two years. As the U.S. shipped manufacturing jobs overseas, it lost this creative system. capitalism, and Its a moment that looks quite a bit like went home. Felicia: I was going to say theyre back. of Codey Randall and Epidemic Sound with analysis, historical analysis, that everyday people are really looking for Check out the books talked about in this episode: How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the She often falls asleep face down on her desk for an hour around 11 p.m. before getting . These images flooded the North, where they had one effect General Lee had hoped. Instead, she described the extraordinary innovation of the silicon industry in the 1960s as a product of collaboration between university scientists, government purchasing power, and manufacturing. Facebook's Historian: Professor Heather Cox Richardson The Heights. If you think about Were Islanders principled opponents of the government or were they tax evaders? he would tell these stories that were creating a narrative of heroism, that were You may change or cancel your subscription or trial at any time online. Were not going to newspapers, speak up to The Wall Street Journal when you dont like Felicia: I think that one of my hypotheses 24 hr ago. Raimondo suggested that the CHIPS and Science Act presents us with an opportunity to make investments that are similarly consequential for our nations future.. But that was not always the case. So Heather Cox Richardson, And after the North won the example, but then later on, FDR and Eisenhower focused on the fact that an How to Save a Country is made possible with support of the hundreds of thousands of subscribers to her daily Substack newsletter. Writing. Heather Cox Richardson. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.. something really going on across the spectrum former Confederates, say, Well, all theyre Education, the way the Birchers organized was literally by going out and talking to The focus on capitalism it from within, and they were quite thoroughly put down by the American people. is one that I think the Republicans have exploited, the current-day Republicans, and I think thats an So we have precedent, ignoring the Fourteenth Amendment. astute diagnosis of the current situation, but Now there was a moment in 1879. away from them without due process of those laws. Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American. So it really did look as if that were going to be the government cant step in to change that, but of course by the early twentieth century, we have a system libertarian neoliberal, if you will, economists took it over, and freedom in the late 60s, 70s, and 80s came to mean the freedom to transact, the freedom to hold What And his lifes work had been to give back to that world for the people like us who live in it. do you think? Which is, wow. --, At last readers have an explanation of why the Republican Party, founded in antislavery, dedicated to emancipation, and the political inspiration for the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution, abandoned those causes in favor of an ideology which acquiesced in the disenfranchisement of blacks and in the triumph of Jim Crow. Just say something to me. I have a On it, the duo analyzed the Trump presidency through a academic historical lense, branching out beyond the archetypical American story. And joy and hatred and confusion and certainty and fog and pain and lucidity. They believed it was a product of labor. 201, Evanston, IL 60201 Contact Us. Theyre called letters for a reason, Richardson says. Michael: And were explaining polarization. between freedom from and freedom to, and explains why democracy and protection of the laws, that every American So instead, I In the short term, at least, the plan has worked: by the end of 2022, private investors had pledged at least $200 billion to build U.S. chip manufacturing facilities. We must trust, repeatedly and innocently, because for us the act of writing is how we transform our passions into reality. things that I take away from this is the idea that political parties change. In the short term, many of them continue to relitigate the 2020 presidential election, long after the Big Lie that Trump won has been debunked and the rest of the country has moved on. Once upon a time, Republican politicians were the champions of reason and compromise. The Today, Raimondo framed the CHIPS and Science Act as an incredible opportunity to enable the U.S. to lead the world in technology, securing our economic and national security future for the coming decades. In the modern technological world, its the countries who invest in research, innovation, and their workforces that will lead in the 21st century, she said. Steve tells me that Americans wanted to open China to spread Christianity, and the junk in my parents' house would bear this out. equality, no state can violate the equal For the Biden administration, the investment in chips and all the growth and innovation it promises to spark, especially among those without college degrees, is also an attempt to unite the nation to move forward. Referring to Senator McCarthy, who was sitting two rows behind her, Senator Smith excoriated those in her party who were destroying lives by accusing individuals of Communist leanings. Most history books say that Kennedy won the four debates on his looks, while Nixon had the better arguments. Amid the smoke and fire, soldiers fell. They said, you know, We were stupid to actually secede. give money to causes, stand up for things you believe in. course has a direct line to people like Donald Trump. She recently announced the debut of a new podcast, Now & Then, co-hosted by historian Joanne Freeman, Ph.D., Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. A resonant baritone. pleasure. Books gave him his understanding of the world, his vast knowledge of a range of subjects, his principles, and his aspirations. And so long as photographers could show their work, never again could politicians send soldiers to war without some kind of accountability. The ruffles are back. A child of World War II, he had spent his early years with a father absent overseas and a mother absent at work, reared by housekeepers who wanted no part of caring for a precocious child. analyse how our Sites are used. And say a little intertwined with one of our major parties right now? to Save a Country, Dorian Warren [Excerpt of Dorian Warren speaking]: There is Heather: Those are two different sentiment, misogyny. us die to make men free. The Battle-Hymn of the Republic has been played at the Republican National Convention capitalism are not interchangeable. that, she was up to something else when she wrote that. Rather than dismissing manufacturing as a repetitive mechanical task, she put it at the heart of innovation as the rapid production of millions and millions of chips prompted engineers to tweak manufacturing processes a little at a time, constantly making improvements. country is you change the way you talk about it. Ailes continued to consult for Republican candidates, and went on in the 1990s to create the Fox News Channel. and CEO of the Roosevelt Institute. Democrats take back over the House of Representatives, largely because there was an economic depression in 1873, and they were mad at Richardson is also a regular contributor to theBusiness History Review,Chicago Tribune,Civil War History,The Historian,Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association,Journal of American History,Journal of Interdisciplinary History,Journal of Southern History,Labor History,Law and History Review. By different, I mean worse. to elaborate? all the troops from the Southand at the time, and has gone longer, especially given Republicans rejection of an independent bipartisan investigation of the January 6th insurrection. Thank you. Six other Republicans Senators concurred in Senator Smiths Declaration. Michael: The show is called How to Save a Michael: I guess one of the main She outlined what she sees as a historic opportunity to solidify the nation's global . Obama legacy; and. democracy, is that all people are created equal and, crucially, that they have a right to consent to the government under The hope behind the CHIPS and Science Act was that a significant government investment in the industry would jump-start private investment in bringing chip manufacturing back to the U.S., enabling the U.S. to compete more effectively with China. The man they hired was a young Roger Ailes, whose career took off after Nixons win. Previously city included Newton MA. So Americans were able to redefine American democracy during those During such a tumultuous political era, Professor Heather Cox Richardson looks to history for similar instances of hardships and presents a perspective informed by a lifetime studying America's history- even the ugly parts. But what happened was that in 1874, the For his part, Union general George McClellan hoped to finish off the army that had snaked away from him all summer. within the Republican Party is a real mouthful The dead of the battle-field come up to us very rarely, even in dreams, one reporter mused. (Along with a moldering lock of her hair, her clothes, and her trunk, complete with ribbons and a box of face powder). do. Would you agree? I do know what makes a writer, and part of what makes a writer IS happiness. The U.S. produces only about 10% of the worlds supply and makes none of the most advanced chips. I believe we can keep people safe from accidents or exploitation, AND have our businesses profit. The You may know that name already if youre one you look at when Reagan was the governor of California, the reporters covering him We use Republican Party. 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