Heather Cox Richardson is an expert in nineteenth-century America, specializing in politics and economics. 她的 most recent book, To Make Men Free, A 历史 of the Republican Party From 1854 To The Present, was released in 2014. Cox Richardson’s first four books explored the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West, and stretched from the presidencies of Abraham Lincoln to that of Theodore Roosevelt. 她的 The Death of Reconstruction (2001), Wounded Knee: Party 政治 and the Road to an American Massacre (2010), and West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War (2007) were all selections of the 历史 Book Club; West from Appomattox was also an Editor’s Choice selection of the New York Times Book Review. She is also the author of: The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic 政策 during the Civil War. Richardson is president of The Historical Society, an organization designed to bring academic history to general readers. 她的 expertise has been utilized by the New York Times, Bloomberg, 美国有线电视新闻网.com, BBC, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and Huffington Post; her blogs for The Historical Society won the Cliopatria Award.

她的 daily digest, Letters From an American, about Trump's ongoing impeachment process has attracted something of a cult following.