Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of history at Boston College. Her forthcoming book, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Struggle for the Soul of America, will be out in April 2020.

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When Adding New States Helped the Republicans

Putting new stars on the U.S. flag has always been political. But D.C. statehood is a modest partisan ploy compared with the mass admission of underpopulated western territories—which boosts the GOP even 130 years later.
- Heather Cox Richardson
- September 19, 2019

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When Adding New States Helped the Republicans