-
·
Letters from an American – February 11, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame Letters from an American, February 11, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 11, 2026 On February 12, 1809, Nancy Hanks Lincoln gave birth to her second child, a son: Abraham. Abraham Lincoln grew up to become the nation’s sixteenth president, leading the country from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, a little…
-
·
Letters from an American – February 7, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame Letters from an American, February 7, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Feb 07, 2026 Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be arrested and held in detention centers without the right to release until…
Arts & Humanities & Music, Books & Reading, Current Affairs, Education & Learning, Featured, Film & Movies & TV, Law & Legal, Libraries & Librarians, Lifestyle & Travel, Memories & History, Politics, Public TV & Radio, Research & Resources, Resistance, Science & Health, Social & Virtual Life, Top News -
·
Letters from an American – January 31, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame Letters from an American, January 31, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson Jan 31, 2026 White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller posted on social media this morning: “Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor…
-
·
Letters from an American – January 26, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame Letters from an American, January 26, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 26, 2026 Yesterday President Donald J. Trump blamed Democratic officials for the killing of VA intensive care nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota Saturday morning. Since then, administration officials and their supporters seem to be coalescing around the idea that the reason there…
Books & Reading, Current Affairs, Education & Learning, Featured, Film & Movies & TV, Law & Legal, Libraries & Librarians, Lifestyle & Travel, Memories & History, Nature, Environment & Climate, Politics, Public TV & Radio, Research & Resources, Resistance, Science & Health, Social & Virtual Life, Top News, Videos & Podcasts -
·
Letters from an American – January 24, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
https://substack.com/session-attribution-frame Letters from an American, January 24, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 24, 2026 This morning, on a street in Minneapolis, at least seven federal agents tackled and then shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse for the local VA hospital. Video from the scene shows Pretti directing traffic on a…
-
·
Letters from an American – January 18, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 18, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 18, 2026 You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left. When I was writing a book about the Wounded Knee Massacre, where heroism was pretty thin…
Arts & Humanities & Music, Books & Reading, Current Affairs, Education & Learning, Featured, Film & Movies & TV, Libraries & Librarians, Love & Relationships, Memories & History, Politics, Religion & Spirit, Research & Resources, Resistance, Science & Health, Social & Virtual Life, Times They Are A-Changing, Top News -
·
Letters from an American – January 16, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 16, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 17, 2026 Well, President Donald J. Trump finally has his Nobel Peace Prize. Yesterday, in a visit to the White House, Venezuela opposition leader María Corina Machado presented Trump with the Nobel Peace Prize medal the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded to her in…
-
·
Letters from an American – January 15, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 15, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 15, 2026 You know what Americans aren’t talking about very much today after Trump’s threat to detonate the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) this week and his threat this morning to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota? They aren’t talking a lot about…
-
·
Letters from an American – January 10, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 10, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 10, 2026 Yesterday, in an apparent attempt to regain control of the national narrative surrounding the deadly shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis, Vice President J.D. Vance led the administration in pushing a video of the shooting captured by the shooter himself, Jonathan…
-
·
Letters from an American – January 9, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 9, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 09, 2026 Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore…
-
·
Letters from an American – January 6, 2026 – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 6, 2026 By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 06, 2026 “They say that when you win the presidency you lose the midterm,” President Donald J. Trump said today to House Republicans. “I wish you could explain to me what the hell is going on with the mind of the public because…
-
·
Letters from an American – January 5, 2026 (Monday) – Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an American, January 5, 2026 (Monday) By Heather Cox Richardson, Jan 05, 2026 Five years ago, on January 6, 2021, more than 2,000 rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol to try to stop the process of counting the electoral votes that would make Democrat Joe Biden president of the United States. They tried to…
