Historians
Letters from an American | Author: Heather Cox Richardson
A political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American politics. She has written award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She is the author of recent, pertinent books about how history informs today.
Heather Cox Richardson| Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America (2023)
Vital and urgent call to action about the precarious state of American democracy.
Heather Cox Richardson| How the South Won the Civil War (2020)
Understanding the complexities of American history and the challenges of achieving equality.
Thinking About | Author: Timothy Snyder
A historian and Toronto professor specializing in Eastern European history, authoritarianism, and democracy. According to the New York Times he is “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between the past and present”.
Timothy Snyder| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century (2017)
A short book listing 20 ways to avoid tyranny
Timothy Snyder| On Freedom (2024)
Exploration of freedom-what it is, how it’s misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival.
David Greenberg| John Lewis: A Life (2024)
Pulitzer Prize Finalist. David Greenberg’s “authoritative…definitive biography” (David J. Garrow, Pulitzer Prize–winning author) follows Lewis’s journey beyond the civil rights era, highlighting his leadership in the Voter Education Project, where he helped enroll millions of African American voters across the South. It also covers his rise in politics, first locally in Atlanta and then as a respected member of Congress.
David Greenberg is a historian and professor of US history as well as of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Thom Hartman| The Hidden History of American Oligarchy (2020)
Billionaire oligarchs want to own our republic, and they’re nearly there, thanks to legislation and Supreme Court decisions that they have essentially bought. They put Trump and his political allies into office and support a vast network of think tanks, publications, and social media that every day push our nation closer and closer to police-state tyranny.
Thom Hartman is the most popular progressive radio host in America and a New York Times best-selling author, looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America - and how we can win the latest round.