Heather Cox Richardson with Andrew Delbanco: Democracy Awakening | LIVE from NYPL

The historian and author kicks off LIVE from NYPL in 2024 with a discussion on the precarious past and future of American democracy. For event details and more, visit www.nypl.org/events/programs/...
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Whether online or in print, no one is better than Heather Cox Richardson at grounding our complicated present in an understanding of our past. Her most recent book is the New York Times bestseller Democracy Awakening, which explained how a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals, and how we can walk ourselves back from the brink of autocracy. To kick off LIVE from NYPL in 2024, Richardson speaks with historian Andrew Delbanco about wrangling the relentless news feed into coherent and actionable stories.
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Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She is the author, most recently, of the best-selling Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Author and journalist Jane Mayer called it “a vibrant, and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its own best ideals.” Richardson’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Her nightly newsletter, Letters from an American, reaches over a million readers.
Andrew Delbanco is Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University and president of the Teagle Foundation. His most recent book, The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul (2018), a New York Times notable book, was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf prize for “books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and human diversity,” the Lionel Trilling Award, and the Mark Lynton History Prize, sponsored by the Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation at Harvard, for a work “of history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual or scholarly distinction with felicity of expression.” In 2012, he was awarded a National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
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