# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heather-cox-richardson
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:16:43.633Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heather-cox-richardson"
name: "Heather Cox Richardson"
slug: "heather-cox-richardson"
description: "Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian who works as a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians. She previously taught history at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Richardson has authored seven books on history and politics. In 2019, she started publishing Letters from an American, a nightly newsletter that chronicles current events in the larger context of American history. Richardson focuses on the health of American democracy. As of July 2025, the newsletter had over 2.6 million subscribers, making it one of the most popular Substack publications."
tagline: "American historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Heather_Cox_Richardson_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1962-10-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.0350802593813118
  historical:           7.412337333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "HC_Richardson"
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    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson"
    handle:    "heathercoxrichardson"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson"
    title: "Heather Cox Richardson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump