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A New York Times BestsellerA vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy, charting its historical challenges and current threats, from one of our era’s most important and insightful historians.“Magisterial.” –The Washington Post“An excellent primer for ... Read More about Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that h... Read More about How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once  a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy -- and how we can turn back.In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson ... Read More about Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening, “the most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses” (Los Angeles Times) When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was economic opportunity for all Americans. Yet ... Read More about To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party

Named one of The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction While the North prevailed in the Civil War, ending slavery and giving the country a "new birth of freedom," Heather Cox Richardson argues in this provocative work that democracy's blood-soaked victory was ephemeral. The system that h... Read More about How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America

From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter:  a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore RooseveltA Wall Street Journal Bestseller   The story of Reconstruction... Read More about West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War