Article Topic: nationalism

How Turner’s Frontier Thesis led Americans astray

Posted July 1st, 2020 & filed under American Nations, Minnesota, nationalism, OpEd, Union, US History, US politics.

Frederick Jackson Turner of “Frontier Thesis” fame is one of the key subjects of Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, being the primary figure in… Read more »

Woodrow Wilson was Even Worse Than You Think

Posted June 30th, 2020 & filed under media appearances, nationalism, Union, US History, US politics.

Woodrow Wilson, one of the primary subjects of my new book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, has just been shoved into the media spotlight… 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 »

Talking Union with Maine Public radio’s “Maine Calling”

Posted June 16th, 2020 & filed under American Nations, media appearances, nationalism, Portland, Union, US History, US politics.

On the eve of the launch of Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, it was a pleasure to be the guest on Maine Public radio’s… Read more »

United States nationhood and my forthcoming book

Posted September 12th, 2019 & filed under American Character, American Nations, Colorado, nationalism, Union, US History.

I recently completed my sixth book, which I expect will be on sale in the summer 2020. It’s on the struggle to create a story of United States nationhood, told… 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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