Three times before, in the 1850s, the 1890s, and the 1920s, oligarchs took over the American government and threatened to destroy democracy.… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
During the Civil War, the fledgling Republican Party constructed the nation's first activist government, using taxes to fund social welfare legislation for… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the 1850s, as the numbers of Americans who were not invested in the slave system grew, the South's leaders felt they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In the 1880s and 1890s, extremists in the Republican party also threatened the future of the US. Just when it seemed the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The number of states in the union has been fixed at 50 for so long, few Americans realize that throughout most of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Teapot Dome scandal seemed to epitomize the administration of the president at the time, Warren G. Harding, although Harding himself was… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
In 1884, for the first time since the Civil War, voters had elected a Democrat to the White House. Grover Cleveland promised… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Since 2012, the USPS has not been able to meet its prefunding requirement, but without it, the agency would have made a modest operating… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Producing 1,200 words every day, when you're already working a full-time job is a lot. — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they highlighted the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Men like Abraham Lincoln recognized that if the slaveholders were not stopped, it would only be a question of time until they spread their… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The question of impeaching Donald Trump is about replacing the toxic partisanship of today's Republican party with America's traditional rule of law. It has… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump's administration looks a great deal like those of the 1850s and the 1890s, with business and government so intertwined that they cannot be… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Trump's alliance with Russia's Vladimir Putin, in defiance of America's own intelligence community, the Department of Justice, and the bipartisan report of the Senate… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to wealth or… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
Dog whistles about women who want handouts are simply an acceptable way to say that women are not worth as much as the men… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
