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.
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Richardson was born in 1962 and raised in Maine. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire and received both her B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where she studied under David Herbert Donald and William Gienapp.
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.
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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.
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Richardson is very private about her personal life.
Who is Heather Cox Richardson’s daughter? As of now, it is not known if Richardson has a daughter.
How old is Richardson’s daughter? There’s no informatio regarding Richardson’s daughter and if she has one, the age is not known.


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