Heather Cox Richardson - Democracy Awakening - Notes

Well-known Boston College historian Heather Cox Richardson tells a coherent liberal American story. Her scholarship is sometimes questionable, but this work serves as a valuable layman readable version of the American story.

Her story is based on the myth we like to tell ourselves that the United States was founded on the belief that we are created "equal" on democratic principles. Forget about indigenous peoples. Forget about people of color. Forget about women. Do that heavy intellectual lifting and she is right.  The DOI is not in the Constitution. The country was founded on the Constitution, not the Declaration. Jefferson and Lincoln were both wrong.