Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor of History at Boston College. She has written award-winning books about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West, covering subjects ranging from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration.

Most recently, Prof. Richardson is the author of the best-selling Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. Jane Mayer called the book “a vibrant and essential history of America's unending, enraging and utterly compelling struggle since its founding to live up to its best ideals.” Heather 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.

Prof. Richardson recently received the Authors Guild Award for literary activism.

Seating is based on a first-come, first-serve basis. Doors open at 3:30 PM.

The event will be livestreamed.