Article Topic: D.C.

Nationhood Lab Director Addresses AEI Conference On Challenges Of U.S. Nationhood And How To Overcome Them

Posted May 15th, 2023 & filed under American Nations, D.C., Media, nationalism, Nationhood Lab, speaking, US History, US politics.

May 12, 2022 WASHINGTON – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab spoke at the American Enterprise Institute last week about the challenges to maintaining U.S. nationhood and how to… Read more »

Talking American Nations and Nationhood Lab at the French Embassy in Washington

Posted February 6th, 2023 & filed under American Character, American Nations, D.C., France, Nationhood Lab, Pell Center, Union, US History, US politics.

I’m cross-posting this Pell Center news release dated 30 January 2023: Woodard Speaks at French Embassy In Washington WASHINGTON – The director of Pell Center’s new Nationhood Lab project addressed… Read more »

Speaking on Union and the battle to define US nationhood with the German Marshall Fund, Sept. 1

Posted August 28th, 2020 & filed under D.C., European Union, media appearances, nationalism, speaking, Union, US History, US politics.

On September 1 at 10:30 Eastern (4:30 CET), I’ll be speaking with the German Marshall Fund’s executive vice president, Derek Chollet about Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of… Read more »

David Blight reviews UNION in the Washington Post

Posted June 28th, 2020 & filed under book reviews, D.C., media appearances, nationalism, Oregon, Union, US History, US politics, Washington Post.

If I were to have created a wish list of eminent people who might be assigned to review my new book, David W. Blight, dean of Frederick Douglass biographers and… Read more »

Talking with NPR’s Tom Gjelten via Politics and Prose, June 28

Posted June 27th, 2020 & filed under book publishing, book reviews, bookselling, D.C., nationalism, Union, US History, US politics.

COVID-19 has forced book tours have gone virtual, and my next stop for Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood is tomorrow, June 28, and it’s a very cool one…. Read more »

US Surgeon General on American Nations and public health

Posted April 10th, 2018 & filed under American Nations, D.C., Health, media appearances.

I ran across this one accidentally on Twitter. Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams gave the keynote address at the American Public Health Association’s National Public Health Week Forum… Read more »

COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy.

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