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Heather Cox Richardson (born October 8, 1962) is an American historian. She is 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.
Her books and her blog posts are grounded in facts about what happened in history. Her writing is accessible while also conveying her rigorous scholarship. The new book contains some 300 footnotes ...
Exactly 141 years ago at high noon, time changed forever in America. In Boston, time moved forward 16 minutes. In Baltimore 6. New Yorkers lost about 4 minutes.
A key impetus for Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" program to eradicate poverty was the sense that the flush economy made it possible, historian Heather Cox Richardson recently documented in her ...
A history of the greenbacks: with special reference to the economic consequences of their issue: 1862–65 (1903) Myers, Margaret G. Financial History of the United States (1970) pp 148–97 online; Niven, John. Salmon P. Chase: a biography (1995) Richardson, Heather Cox.
Historian Heather Cox Richardson writes that Harrison has largely escaped blame for the Panic of 1893, with both the contemporary general public and many later historians primarily faulting Grover Cleveland for the economic crisis, which was one of the worst recessions in U.S. history. [161]
At Oakland Community College in Auburn Hills, Michigan, "Topics in History: The JFK Assassination" has been a staple for more than three decades. The most recent class began September 19 ...
Heather Cox Richardson, The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 1997) Paul Studenski and Herman E. Krooss. Financial History of the United States: Fiscal, Monetary, Banking, and Tariff, Including Financial Administration and State and Local Finance (1952)