Does Heather Cox Richardson have a PHD?

Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian and professor of history at Boston College. She teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians.

Richardson previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Richardson is an accomplished author and she has authored six books on history and politics.

Richardson founded a popular history website, werehistory.org. in 2014 and between 2017 and 2018, she co-hosted the NPR podcast Freak Out and Carry On.

Most recently, Richardson started publishing “Letters from an American”, a nightly newsletter that chronicles current events in the larger context of American history.

The newsletter accrued tens of thousands of subscribers, making her, as of December 2020, the most successful individual author of a paid publication on Substack.

Richardson also co-hosts the podcast Now & Then with fellow historian Joanne B. Freeman.

Does Heather Cox Richardson have a PHD?

Heather Cox Richardson has a PhD, which she received from Harvard University, where she studied under David Herbert Donald and William Gienapp.

Richardson also received her B.A from same Havard University.