Heather Cox Richardson
Even before her explosively popular Substack Letters from an American, which has grown to more than two million subscribers since it began in 2019, historian Heather Cox Richardson was an important voice in discussions around post-Civil War American history. The author of seven books, Richardson\u2019s writing has focused on race, economics, and political ideology, including the story of the Republican Party and the Wounded Knee Massacre.\xa0 Most recently, she published the book Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, a\xa0 deep dive into how a small group of wealthy people pushed the government towards authoritarianism, and how understanding the real history of America\u2019s most marginalized people can help us move back towards a real democracy.\xa0 On September 19, 2024, Heather Cox Richardson came to the Sydney Goldstein Theater in San Francisco for an on-stage conversation with Steven Winn.\xa0