Section A
ALL1376-HC First 6 Weeks Mondays 10:30-11:50 Start Date 9-Sep
Grossman 115 Limit 24
ALL1376-HZ First 6 Weeks Mondays 10:30-11:50 Start Date 9-Sep
Zoom Limit 10
Section B
ALL1377-HC Second 6 Weeks Mondays 10:30-11:50 Start Date 28-Oct
Grossman 115 Limit 24
ALL1377-HZ Second 6 Weeks Mondays 10:30-11:50 Start Date 28-Oct
Zoom Limit 10
Heather Cox Richardson is a Professor of History at Boston College and the author of seven books on history and politics. This course is based on her highly successful “Letters from an American,” a nightly newsletter covering national events in the context of American history. I or someone from the class will lead a discussion each week on three of her letters selected from the previous week. I find Heather’s articles fascinating – insightful and thought provoking. I hope you will as well. I intend to keep discussions fact based and apolitical. Students are expected to obtain a subscription to her digital newsletter; both free and paid versions are available on her website and emailed to you daily. They are short and easily read in a few minutes. A few days before each class, I will pick which articles from the previous week you should read. Once you subscribe to her newsletter, however, I think you will want to read them every day!
Text: Students are expected to obtain a subscription to her digital newsletter; both free and paid versions are available at https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/ and emailed to you daily. They are short and easily read in a few minutes.
Coordinator: Paul Coteus 
Here’s Paul with a brief description of his class “Letters from an American.” 
Paul is a retired physicist and IBM Fellow. Some of the most entertaining and enriching classes he has taken at ALL involve a learned discussion of current events. He hopes this class, focused on viewing the national news though the lens of American history, will be similar.
Video/Podcast-Paul Coteus and Steve Munroe “History of Earth”