希瑟·考克斯·理查森是当今最出人意料的社交媒体明星之一。这位来自波士顿学院的历史学家几十年来一直致力于研究19世纪的美国、重建时期以及美国内战。
Heather Cox Richardson is one of today’s unlikeliest social media stars. The Boston College historian has been teaching and writing about 19th-century America, Reconstruction, and the Civil War for decades.
然而，直到2019年，她的作品才真正走红，当时她开始撰写每日新闻通讯，通过美国历史的视角对时事进行客观分析。这份通讯在Substack平台上成为最受欢迎的内容之一。
But it was only in 2019 that her work took off when she began writing her daily newsletter, , a no-nonsense analysis of the news through the lens of US history. The newsletter became one of the most popular on Substack.
如今，理查森拥有数百万忠实粉丝，他们依赖她来理解美国政治，并从中获得一些理智和民主的慰藉，尽管她本人也对国家的未来方向感到担忧。
And today, Richardson has millions of loyal fans who rely on her to make sense of American politics and provide a little sanity and democratic reassurance, even as she herself is concerned about the direction of the country today.
‘我担心我们正走向何方，这真的让我很担忧，’理查森对主持人阿尔·莱特森说，‘但让我感到欣慰的是，越来越多的人意识到自己有能力改变未来。而这，一直都是我们民主制度的本质。’
“I’m worried about where we’re going. Just don’t even start me,” Richardson tells host Al Letson. “But I am heartened in this moment by the number of people who are rediscovering that they do have agency to change the future. And of course, that’s always been the story of our democracy.”
在本周的通讯中，理查森就民主党在中期选举中重新掌权后的应对策略、长期以来未能追究腐败美国领导人的责任、重建时期的悲剧性后果，以及她眼中的托马斯·杰斐逊的虚伪之处提出了建议。’
On this week’s , Richardson doles out some advice for the Democrats if they take back power in the midterm elections, the decades-long failure to hold corrupt American leaders accountable, the still-resonant death of Reconstruction, and what she sees as the tragic hypocrisy of Thomas Jefferson. Find on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, or your favorite podcast app, and don’t forget to.