Professor Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She writes widely, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post , the New York Times , and The Guardian , among other outlets. She is the cohost of the Vox...See more
Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She writes widely, and her work has appeared in the Washington Post , the New York Times , and The Guardian , among other outlets. She is the cohost of the Vox podcast, Now & Then . See less
Professor Heather Cox Richardson's Featured Books
Professor Heather Cox Richardson book reviews
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West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War
Reconstruction And The American West
In "West from Appomatox", Professor Heather Cox Richardson focuses on the role of the American West in defining the American experience and the American character in the decades following the Civil ... Read More
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Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre
Politics as Usual
by BruceHH, Apr 25, 2012
Richardson has used an American atrocity to show how party politics affects policy development. Some of the chapters deal with the Native Americans while others cover the 'white' America of the time. ... Read More