This coming Sunday, November 1, I’ll be joining a virtual panel to discuss “The Search for a Shared American Narrative,” which in its original 19th century guise, is the topic… Read more »
Article Topic: Union
Speaking on Union (virtually) in Brunswick, Maine, Oct. 28
Tomorrow, October 28, I’ll be speaking on my new book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood via the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine. Owing to the… Read more »
Talking with Discover Magazine about causes of regional personality differences
Discover Magazine reported on a recent study on the relationship between topography and personality, and reached out to me for my thoughts on the causes of observed differences between the… Read more »
Talking UNION with Heartland Politics
Had an enjoyable conversation last week with Monmouth College political scientist Robin Johnson about the story told in Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood for… Read more »
Chicago Magazine, Alabama Political Reporter on American Nations; Jeff Daniels on Union
As the highest-stakes U.S. election since 1860 fast approaches, various news outlets have been using American Nations to explain how things got so bad. Most interesting for me is when they… Read more »
Speaking on UNION via the Boston Athenaeum, Sept. 23
It is my great pleasure to be returning to the Boston Athenaeum on this coming Wednesday, September 23, this time to speak on my new book, Union: The Struggle to Forge… Read more »
Talking with the Boston Globe about UNION and the war for America’s soul
It was a pleasure speaking with the Boston Globe‘s David Scharfenberg last week about the struggle over the soul of the United States between defining ourselves by our ideals and… Read more »
Talking with The New Yorker about the forces of U.S. disunity
Almost a decade ago I posited, in the epilogue of American Nations, that the United States is vulnerable to dissolution. We’re an unwieldy federation of rival regional cultures, many of… Read more »
Speaking on UNION and the creation and future of U.S. nationhood, Sept. 7 via Jesup Memorial Library
On the evening of Labor Day, September 7, I’ll be giving a virtual talk and answering questions about Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood and the… Read more »
Speaking on Union and the battle to define US nationhood with the German Marshall Fund, Sept. 1
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 »
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.