# Letters from an American

A newsletter about the history behind today's politics.

By Heather Cox Richardson

## Articles

### [June 23, 2026](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-23-2026)
[Trump continues frantically to insist that the problems with the Reflecting Pool are the acts of vandals.](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-23-2026)

### [June 22, 2026](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-22-2026)
[It appears to be more and more clear that the Trump administration is mired in its own mistakes.](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-22-2026)

### [June 21, 2026](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-21-2026)
[I spent so much time in my friend Mike’s house growing up that I knew his parents as Mama and Papa.](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-21-2026)

### [June 20, 2026](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-2026)
[The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a metaphor for the Trump presidency.](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-2026)

### [Week Four in 250 to 250](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/week-four-in-250-to-250)
[This was the fourth week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/week-four-in-250-to-250)

### [Mired in Its Own Mistakes](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/mired-in-its-own-mistakes)
18 hrs ago

### [Father's Day](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/fathers-day)

### [Reality Defies Trump’s Narrative](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/reality-defies-trumps-narrative)

### [Juneteenth](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/juneteenth)