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Heather Cox Richardson

About the Author

Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian and professor of history at Boston College. Her daily newsletter, Letters from an American, has over a half million subscribers. The author of Democracy AwakeningHow the South Won the Civil War, and Wounded Knee, she splits her time between Boston and Maine.

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