Clarksville Indivisible

05/31/2026

Misogyny is an increasing factor in far-right attacks, but it often goes unnoticed.

05/31/2026

She never wanted to be a warning.

Heather Cox Richardson just wanted to be a historian. Teach at Boston College. Write careful books. Study the past from a safe, comfortable distance — like watching a storm through a library window.

But the storm kept finding her.

Decades inside history’s darkest chapters — the years before the Civil War, when compromise quietly died. The Gilded Age, when a handful of men rewrote rules and convinced a nation it was normal.

The villains weren’t the problem. It was the ordinary people. Educated, thoughtful, decent people. Watching disaster unfold and telling themselves: Not here. Not us. Not really.

September 2019: she started writing a nightly newsletter — Letters from an American. Meant for a few hundred academics.

Today, over a million people read it.

Not because they love history.

Because Heather does something rare: she points at the present and says — I’ve seen this pattern before. I know how it can end. And it’s not finished yet.

Great disasters aren’t sudden. Democracies erode slowly — small concessions, bending norms, removing safeguards. Each choice feels manageable. Each feels temporary.

But Heather has seen what happens when ordinary people engage. When they pay attention. Show up. Insist the story isn’t over.

Her answer to “Are we doomed?” never changes:

We are living in one of those moments.

Fifty years from now, historians will study this era the way Heather studies the 1850s and 1890s. They’ll debate turning points. And they’ll see the answer in what we do next.

History isn’t distant. It’s being written right now — by our ordinary choices on ordinary days.

The only question: what kind of story will we be part of?

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Bingo!

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