I’ll be giving a talk entitled “American Nations: How to Unite the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of the United States” at Ohio University in Athens on February 11 from 7:00 to… Read more »
Article Topic: Ohio
Is Pittsburgh in the Midlands?
In the seven years since American Nations was published, most readers have endorsed their county’s placement among the eleven regional cultures I write about in the book. Two locations have… Read more »
Ohio, Oregon media consider American Nations-guided secession
As readers of American Nations probably know, I’m not a fan of the idea of breaking up the United States, for reasons I outlined more directly in this book review… 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.