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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New, one-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 New Amsterdam Narrated by Mayor Zohran Mamdani #WeAreAmerica250 #Lenape #GlobalTrade #NewYork youtu.be/xLT0nmZ17bA?...

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New Amsterdam, Narrated by Mayor Zohran Mamdani

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Nicholas Stubblefield, a proud former member of the HCR posse, is a writer and stand-up comedian based in in Boston. He's won awards, though none that you've heard of. He celebrates landscape architect, author, conservationist and public servant, Frederick Law Olmsted. #WeAreAmerica250

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ken Lincoln is president of the Thompson Ice House Preservation Corporation, which operates an onsite museum and sponsors an annual ice harvest. Lincoln chronicles America's forgotten ice trade, which revolutionized how the nation ate and drank before mechanical refrigeration. #WeAreAmerica250

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Nick Estes, member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe & Asso. Professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota, recounts the cross-country caravan that indigenous activists organized in October 1972, in this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team. youtu.be/G2Bb88n9JUU?...

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Trail of Broken Treaties, Narrated by Nick Estes

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Kelly Guinan @kellyguinan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

New, fun, one-minute learning, the modern School House Rock® of American History by @hcrichardson.bsky.social team #250to250 (This one didn't get the views so let's pump it up.) Voting Rights Act Narrated by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social #WeAreAmerica250 #CivilRights youtu.be/hJpNEm8lctc?...

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Voting Rights Act, Narrated by Kevin M. Kruse

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

OMG people catch on already: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bad-weather

Hakeem Jeffries has always been bad and serves a foreign apartheid regime
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/bad-weather

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

In this 250 to 250 from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team, Kahlil Greene, well-known digital educator & Peabody Award winner, profiles illustrator Norman Rockwell, whose beloved images of everyday American life evolved to confront war, civil rights, & the nation's conscience. youtu.be/PB4VHj1HZxI?...

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Norman Rockwell, Narrated by Kahlil Greene

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Joy P @jpin.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Watching these is uplifting

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Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social and team for these amazing moments!

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Billie Tsien is a renowned Chinese-American architect, co-founder of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, National Medal of Arts recipient, and lead designer behind the Obama Presidential Center. Tsien profiles architect I.M. Pei, who helped define American modernism. #WeAreAmerica250

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Welp. Here I be!

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Most of us actually agree on the biggest things we must do to make life better in this country - despite what the people in power right now want you to believe.

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Veronica Green-Party Eco-Socialist @smartirestgeenyas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Capitalists in the DNC & RNC bring us "work til we die" wage slavery. Meanwhile Socialist Democracies in Europe guarantee retirement and life-work balance for their people. USA is NOT the land of the free. It never was.

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Diana V. DaPontes @dianaveradesigns.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Far from a relaxing August😌 Terrible heat, awful machinations, and a dreadful tale of abandoned good folks on a jet plane, who could have all been killed.

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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Summary of Citizens United, Narrated by Steve Bullock, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social @HCRHQ youtu.be/oZnbhWrMtkE?... Full carousel on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/Db5gwSVllN... #WeAreAmerica250 #heathercoxrichardson

First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Citizens United, Narrated by Steve Bullock, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250”. Text reads: “In this episode of 250 to 250, Former Montana Governor and Attorney General Steve Bullock breaks down the devastating legacy of the 2010 Citizens United ruling, tracing how a ten-fold explosion in dark money and corporate spending has steadily eroded the integrity of American democracy over the past decade and a half.

Bullock led the states’ efforts challenging the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United v. FEC decision. His case, ATP v Bullock, remains the only case to reach the Supreme Court directly challenging Citizens United. He remains a prominent figure in the national conversation surrounding money in politics.”

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11/08/2026

In the decades to come, when this moment has passed, no one will remember this deal, Marc Elias writes to David Ellison. What they will remember is that at a time when our nation’s democracy was in peril, some stood against authoritarianism while others simply tried to make deals to get theirs.

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My open letter to David Ellison

You argued that the American people have misjudged you — that they are wrong about what is in your heart and mind. I want to be clear: I don't care what you think or feel. What I care about is your ac...

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David Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Alexander Stephens, VP of the Confederacy, said their cause was based on the "great truth" that white people were superior to Black people. Racial enslavement and white supremacy. Don't let anyone ever say otherwise. Thank you, Vernon Burton, @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social.

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Cornerstone of the Confederacy, Narrated by Vernon Burton

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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DTwyman @dtwyman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

If you haven't tuned in for these, they are really wonderful. This week features: Norman Borlaug, Dwayne McDuffie, Cherokee Phoenix (the first Native run paper), Route 66, the Orange Plank Road, The Indi 500, and The Voting Rights Act narrated by everyone's fav. Kevin Kruse.

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Vince Polley @vpolley.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Excellent, and at 60-seconds each certainly worth the time.

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Pine Tree Activism @pinetreeactivism.org · 08/08/2026

Written in 2019 for her 2020 book HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT - The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America, this line by Sarah Kendzior has stayed near the top of my mind. "The crimes are much worse than the scandals, but the media will always take the scandal bait." Applies to so much.

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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Summary of Los Alamos, Narrated by Todd Nickols, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social @HCRHQ youtu.be/q4SJTSYhp9Q?... Full carousel on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DbvKzCilq9... #WeAreAmerica250 #heathercoxrichardson

First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Los Alamos, Narrated by Todd Nickols, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250”. Text reads: “In this episode of 250 to 250, Todd Nickols tells the story of Los Alamos, where J. Robert Oppenheimer and thousands of scientists built the atomic bomb that would forever change warfare.

Nickols is the Executive Director of Los Alamos Historical Society (LAHS) and former manager of the Bandelier Trading Company where he worked on several Federal National Park Service initiatives.”

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social is a historian, Guggenheim Fellow, author of White Flight and One Nation Under God, and co-editor of Myth America. Kruze examines the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the crowning achievement of the civil rights era. #WeAreAmerica250

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'd love to credit whoever wrote this. No idea. But I'm 100% with its message. When I think of how the '80s ethos, "Greed is Good" has metastasized, it surprises and depresses me. Imagine having so many millions, hundred of millions, even billions & caring about nothing except your own vanity.

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

@hcrichardson.bsky.social is an award-winning historian and the author of Letters from an American. Richardson revisits the Declaration of Independence and the principles of equality and self-government that set America on the road to becoming "the last, best hope of Earth." #WeAreAmerica250

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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Summary of Barney Ford, Narrated by Representative @joeneguse.bsky.social , part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social youtu.be/ReUkSuKk24Q?... Full carousel on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DbdRomUlmI... #WeAreAmerica250 #heathercoxrichardson

First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing Barney Ford, Narrated by Representative Joe Neguse, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250”. Text reads: “In this episode of 250 to 250, United States Representative Joe Neguse of Colorado recalls the life of Barney Ford, a pioneering Black entrepreneur in Colorado who fought for the 15th Amendment.

Representative Neguse is a member of the Natural Resources, Judiciary and Rules Committees, and is the Ranking Member on the House Subcommittee on Federal Lands. He’s also served as the House Assistant Minority Leader since 2024.”

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New article! On AI, war, and other bad things: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

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Quicksand

Gen X was right after all.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Written in 2019. The future is now.

excerpt of Sarah Kendzior book Hiding in Plain Sight. "there is a difference between expecting an American autocracy and acceptig it and i refuse to accept it."

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 26/07/2026

We’ve seen this playbook before. And every time, it has been people organizing together that forced them to back down. We are strongest when we stand together. ICE OUT NOW. 🎥 @ktvufox2.bsky.social

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

If you haven't heard, @hcrichardson.bsky.social is doing a project called 250 to 250 to honor our nation's birth. I narrated one of the short videos she's putting together, honoring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUY...

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Sandra Day O'Connor, Narrated by Joyce White Vance

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

In this 250 for 250, @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team recruited Rabbi Robert Haas, interfaith leader, comedian, & preacher, to tell the story of the Jewish refugees who arrived in Savannah in 1733 & founded the oldest Jewish congregation in the American South. youtu.be/k5bEmg2lD8g?...

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Jewish Community of Early Savannah, Narrated by Rabbi Robert Haas

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Susan Taylor @sataylormd.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Please please watch this one (they are all FABULOUS)! Thank you @hcrichardson.bsky.social

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team, Allison Gill, host & EP of GLAAD-nominated & Webby-award-winning podcasts, recounts the Palmer Raids of 1919–1920, when thousands of Americans were arrested without warrants during the nation's first Red Scare. youtu.be/0_KG_INv1PA?...

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Palmer Raids, Narrated by Allison Gill

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Summary of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Narrated by Sarah Longwell”, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social youtu.be/atQkNMvml-8?... Full carousel on Instagram www.instagram.com/p/Da2hjIslum... #WeAreAmerica250

First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” Narrated by Sarah Longwell”, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250”. Text reads: “In this episode of 250 to 250, Sarah Longwell tells us how the British bombardment of Baltimore’s Fort McHenry in 1814 inspired our national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Longwell is publisher of The Bulwark, host of The Focus Group podcast, and bestselling author of "How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time," releasing this fall.”

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Todd Arrington, American historian, veteran, author, & ED of the Jamestown Rediscovery Fndn, examines the Homestead Act of 1862, which offered 160 acres—taken from Indigenous tribes—to settlers in the American West, in this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team. youtu.be/KroETCbxUr0?...

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Homestead Act, Narrated by Todd Arrington

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

There’s something about this narrator that I can’t quite put my finger on… Thanks to @250to250.bsky.social for letting me narrate this one! I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the Homestead Act and worked for ten years at Homestead Nat’l Monument in Nebraska. This topic is near & dear to my heart!

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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Summary of “John Adams' Letters to Abigail, Narrated by @sarageorgini.bsky.social ”, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social @HCRHQ youtu.be/uhxXjeEh1p4?... Full carousel on Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DaxYxwAFvq... #WeAreAmerica250

First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing “John Adams' Letters to Abigail, Narrated by Sara Georgini”, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250”. Text reads: “In this episode of 250 to 250, Dr. Sara Georgini shares how John Adams, writing to his wife Abigail in 1776, envisioned generations of Americans celebrating independence with pomp and parade—right about everything but the date.

Georgini is an American historian, author, and Series Editor for the ‘Papers of John Adams,’ at the Adams Papers Editorial Project at the Massachusetts Historical Society.”

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

United States Representative Joe Neguse of Colorado is a member of the Natural Resources, Judiciary and Rules Committees. Representative Neguse recalls the life of Barney Ford, a pioneering Black entrepreneur in Colorado who fought for the 15th Amendment. #WeAreAmerica250

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Kristen @kristen10.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The Great Depression and Black Monday. Thank you Mr. Krugman

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𝙾𝙻𝙸𝚅𝙸𝙰 🤍 🇲🇽 𝟺𝚃𝙷 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝙽𝚂𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙼𝙴𝚁 @olivia4t.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

🔴 This video was deleted from X by #ElonMüsk. They all knew who Trümp really was. You know what to do ‼️

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Steve the Dog🐾 @stevethedogcivics.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Summary of “16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Narrated by Senator Doug Jones”, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @250to250.bsky.social @HCRHQ youtu.be/jFfqj-82j_o?... Full carousel on Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DanIM0pFo2... #WeAreAmerica250

First slide of an Instagram carousel summarizing “16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Narrated by Senator Doug Jones”, part of the YouTube series “250 to 250”. Text reads: “In this episode of 250 to 250, Senator Doug Jones remembers the four young girls killed in the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, a tragedy that galvanized support for the Civil Rights Act. He prosecuted the case decades later.

Jones is a prominent attorney and public servant who became the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in 25 years and is currently the state's Democratic nominee for Governor.”

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Katie Boyd, world-renowned media personality, and fitness and spiritual lifestyle coach, examines the Miss America pageant, whose history reflects America's slow reckoning with women's rights and racial equality in this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social and team. youtu.be/Z8udWUsRFKE?...

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Miss America Pageant, Narrated by Katie Boyd

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KC @kcwinters.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

In this 250 minute by @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team, inspiring Gov JB Pritzker, who has revitalized Illinois, recalls when Lincoln rededicated the nation to the principles established by the Declaration of Independence via the Gettyburg Address. @‪jbpritzker‬.bsky.social youtu.be/ife7e1ppN3o?...

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Gettysburg Address, Narrated by Governor JB Pritzker

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Senator Doug Jones is a prominent attorney and public servant who became the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in 25 years. Jones narrates the history of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that took place in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963. #WeAreAmerica250

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