As part of the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival, historian Heather Cox Richardson sits down with Celeste Headlee, host of Slate’s Hear Me Out podcast, for a tough conversation about the state of our democracy and the potential long-term impacts of the upcoming presidential election.
Heather Cox Richardson is the author of Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America. She is a self-proclaimed idealist who uses historical context to examine how people can impact politics and achieve tangible results.
Headlee and Richardson debate the intent of the founding fathers in writing the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as white male property owners. Did they mean America to be a true
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