Heather Cox Richardson is professor of history at Boston College. Previously professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, she received her PhD in 1992 from Harvard's Program in the History of American Civilization. She is the author of four books, including WOUNDED KNEE: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre and WEST FROM APPOMATTOX:The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War. She has appeared on a Bill Moyers documentary, "The Chinese in America," and works with two educational consulting firms to train secondary school teachers and conduct public historical seminars. An OAH Distinguished Lecturer, she is also a member of both the editorial board of the journal American Nineteenth Century History and the national advisory board for the Tredegar National Civil War Center Foundation. She reviews books for popular media like the Chicago Tribune as well as a wide range of scholarly journals.

Books by Heather Cox Richardson

To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party

by Heather Cox Richardson - History, Nonfiction, Politics

In TO MAKE MEN FREE, Heather Cox Richardson traces the shifting ideology of the Grand Old Party from the antebellum era to the Great Recession, revealing the insidious cycle of boom and bust that has characterized the Party since its inception. While in office, progressive Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower revived Lincoln's vision of economic freedom and expanded the government, attacking the concentration of wealth and nurturing upward mobility. But they and others like them have been continually thwarted by powerful business interests in the Party.