Heather Cox Richardson
American historian
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| 2024 | Awarded The Baldacci Award for Literary Activism by the Authors Guild Foundation. |
| November 2024 | Received the Kidger Award from the New England History Teachers Association at the NCSS Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. |
| January 2024 | Richardson's newsletter reached approximately 1.3 million readers per issue. |
| 2023 | The Guardian recognized her as the single most-important progressive pundit since Edward P. Morgan from the 1960s. |
| 2023 | Concluded co-hosting the podcast 'Now and Then' with Joanne B. Freeman |
| 2023 | Published her seventh book, 'Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America', which analyzes the historical roots of fascism in America and the potential democratic decline. |
| 2022 | Named as one of the Women of the Year for 2022 by USA Today. |
| September 2022 | Heather Cox Richardson married Buddy Poland, a Maine lobsterman, in September. |
| February 2022 | Richardson interviewed U.S. President Joe Biden during the 'Now and Then' podcast |
| 2021 | Heather Cox Richardson was included on the Forbes 50 over 50 list and received the Frances Perkins Center Intelligence and Courage Award. |
| 2021 | Heather Cox Richardson began co-hosting the podcast 'Now and Then' with historian Joanne B. Freeman |
| 2021 | Richardson's newsletter received the 'Best of Boston' award for '2021 Best Pandemic Newsletter' from Boston magazine. |
| January 6 2021 | Noted the irony of a Confederate flag being carried during the Capitol riot, contrasting this with the original Republican Party's anti-Confederate origins in the 1850s. |
| 2020 | Published 'How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America', a book arguing that contradictory ideals of liberty and hierarchy have persisted in American politics since the Civil War era. |
| 2019 | Heather Cox Richardson began writing foundational pieces that would later develop into her book 'Democracy Awakening', focusing on contemporary events and their historical context. |
| 2019 | Richardson started publishing 'Letters from an American', a nightly newsletter chronicling current events in the context of American history, which would later grow to over one million subscribers on Substack. |
| September 2019 | Heather Cox Richardson began writing a daily synopsis of political events related to the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump, initially posting on her Facebook page. |
| 2017 | Heather Cox Richardson began co-hosting the NPR podcast 'Freak Out and Carry On', which ran until 2018. |
| 2014 | Co-founded the history website 'We're History' (werehistory.org) and served as a co-editor until 2020. |
| 2014 | Published 'To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party', a comprehensive study of the Republican Party from its inception in the 1850s through the George W. Bush presidency, exploring the party's ideological evolution and challenges. |
| 2010 | Published 'Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre', a scholarly work analyzing the political context of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, arguing that party politics and opportunism were key factors in the U.S. Army's violent action against Native Americans in South Dakota. |
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