Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)

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Historian. Author. Professor. Budding Curmudgeon. I study the contrast between image and reality in America, especially in politics.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)·Sep 15

1901, photograph by Dr. Allan Warner of two 13 year old boys both infected with smallpox on the same day, one vaccinated as an infant and one not.

Of the two boys with smallpox, the one who had been vaccinated has very few pox while the other is horribly disfigured.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)·Sep 7

Government not by fact but by ideology. Always a disaster because officials try to make reality fit their vision. Lysenkoism in the USSR, which tried to change the laws of nature, created famines that killed tens of millions of people in the USSR and China.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)·Sep 16

September 15, 2025 Six years of Letters from an American. I could not be more grateful to be part of this wonderful community.

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