Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
727 episodes transcribedApril 17, 2026Strait of Hormuz opens after 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon takes effect, Trump hits media circle announcing that the war w...
April 16, 2026Congress is back in session, Republicans are reckoning with Victor Orbán’s fall, With Trump’s erratic behavior, rising oil prices, and t...
April 15, 2026Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln spent the evening of April 14 at Ford’s Theater in Washington, That night, John Wilkes Booth enter...
April 14, 2026Viktor Orbán’s loss of control of the Hungarian government has changed the political game in the US, Trump’s emotional state “seems to b...
April 13, 2026Péter Magyar won the Hungarian election in a blowout, He revealed that Viktor Orbán was using government money to finance CPAC in the US...
April 12, 2026War with Iran has pushed inflation to 3.3% - the fastest rate of growth in almost two years, Energy costs skyrocket as the Strait of Hor...
April 11, 2026On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired on South Carolina’s Fort Sumter, South Carolina had left the Union the previous December, Wh...
April 10, 2026Donald Trump’s genocidal threats earlier this week terrorized millions of Iranians and thus violated the Geneva Conventions, Trump conti...
April 9, 2026Trump’s ceasefire immediately begins to fall apart, Israel does not accept an end to its bombardment of southern Lebanon, Iran closes Str...
April 8, 2026General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee agreed to meet at the home of Wilmer McLean in Appomattox on the afternoon...
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April 6, 2026According to Aaron Rupar, “It is difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is,” The story is the president, himself,...
April 5, 2026In a rant on social media, Trump threatens Iran again, Trump’s post threatens to commit war crimes, Post pushes back the deadline for ex...
April 4, 2026Pete Hegseth fires US Army chief of staff, Iran shoots down a US fighter jet and hits a Warthog aircraft and a helicopter, One airman was...
April 2, 2026Trump invokes the right-wing vision of the Goldwater era, Trump's 2027 budget plan about to be released and will shape the Republican arg...
April 1, 2026Trump attended the Supreme Court hearing of the case under which he hopes to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by the Fourt...
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March 30, 2026Trump shares images of new White House ballroom, Trump again suggests discussions to end war in Iran are underway but Iran insists it is...
March 28,2026Trump is attempting to rewrite our nation’s history, Administration calls for putting Trump's ideology in place in federal historic sites...
