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Heather Cox Richardson
Historian & political commentator
Professor of History, Boston College
Why we listen to Heather: unabashed historical analysis, contrasting today's issues with the extant historical record.
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian who works as a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.