media appearances
Latest Past Events
Speaking on the American Nations trilogy at National Defense University, Washington, DC, Dec. 6 (private)
National Defense University Fort McNair, WashingtonI will be making my annual speech to the American Studies international fellows at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.. for the fourth year running. This is a private event closed to public.
Speaking on Union and the fraught effort to create a U.S. national story; Columbia, S.C., Oct. 26
University of South Carolina ColumbiaI'll be speaking about Union and the fraught effort to create a U.S. national story -- from scratch -- starting in the 1830s at the University of South Carolina's Humanities Collaborative in Columbia, S.C. the evening of Oct. 26. The event, free and open to the public, will be held in the School of Law... Read more »
Presenting American Nations at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Oct. 17
Kenyon College GambierI'll be speaking about the rival regional cultures of North America described in American Nations -- and how we overcome the resulting problems for U.S. nationhood -- at Kenyon College's Center for the Study of American Democracy on October 17th. The event is free and kicks off at 7:30pm in Kenyon's Community Foundation Theater.
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.