Union talk – Kennebunk, Maine
Brick Store Museum 117 Main Street, Kennebunk, ME, United StatesI’ll be speaking about my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine. It's a public event, but they're asking for a donation of your choice to help support this and other worthy programs at the museum.Books will be available for... Read more »
Union talk – Scarborough, Maine
Scarborough Public Library 48 Gorham Road, Scarborough, ME, United StatesI’ll be speaking about my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, at the Scarborough Public Library. Books available for purchase and signing. Free and open to the public.
Union talk – Exeter, New Hampshire
Exeter Public Library 10 Front Street, Exeter, NH, United StatesI’ll be speaking about my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, at the Exeter Public Library in Exeter, New Hampshire. Books available for purchase and signing. Free and open to the public.
Union talk – Newburyport, Massachusetts
Newburyport Public Library 94 State Street, Newburyport, MA, United States’ll be speaking about my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, at the Newburyport Public Library in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Books available for purchase and signing. Free and open to the public.
Speaking on American Nations trilogy – Washington, D.C. (private)
National Defense University Fort McNair, Washington, DC, United StatesSpeaking to the American Studies international fellows. Private event closed to public.
Signing at Leopold’s Books Bar Caffe, Madison, Wisconsin, Mar. 15
Leopold's Book Bar Caffe 1301 Regent Street, Madison, WI, United StatesI'll be doing an informal Q&A and signing books at Madison, Wisconsin's very own Leopold Books Bar Caffe on March 15 from 6 to 7pm. Come by and chat about native son Frederick Jackson Turner's role in the struggle to create a national story for the fractured, fractious United States -- an epic undertaking brought... Read more »
Speaking on Union, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mar. 16 (private)
College Endowment Association Milwaukee, WI, United StatesI'll be speaking on my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, and the battle between civic and ethno-nationalist visions of the country to the College Endowment Association in Milwaukee. It's a members-only event, but if you're in southern Wisconsin and wanted to connect, give me a shout.... Read more »
Speaking on Union in Newport, R.I., April 21
Salve Regina University Newport, RI, United StatesI'll be speaking on my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, and the battle between civic and ethno-nationalist visions of the country at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, where I am a Pell Center Senior Visiting Fellow. The event is free and open to the... Read more »
Speaking on Union in Portland, Maine, Oct. 19
University of New England - Innovation Hall Portland, ME, United StatesI'll be delivering the keynote address at the Maine Conservation Alliance and Maine Consideration Voters' annual Evening for the Environment on Oct. 19 at the University of New England in Portland, Maine. The topics are the issues raised in my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood with... Read more »
Speaking on saving our democracy, Freeport, Maine, Oct. 20
Meeting House Arts 40 Main Street, Freeport, ME, United StatesI am pleased to be joining the fall line up of speakers at Freeport Speech, the speaker series held at the Meeting House Arts in downtown Freeport, Maine. I'll be speaking on How to Save U.S. Democracy, a topic I've been working on at the Pell Center informed by my recent books American Nations, American... Read more »
Speaking on the American Nations trilogy, Washington, D.C. Dec. 7 (private)
National Defense University Fort McNair, Washington, DC, United StatesMaking my annual speech to the American Studies international fellows at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.. Private event closed to public.
Speaking on the American condition, past at present, at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. (Private)
Embassy of the Republic of France to the United States Washington, DC, United StatesI'll be joining France's Ambassador to the U.S., Phillipe Etienne, to speak about the backstory to the present American condition and other relevant political and historical phenomena at the Embassy of France's annual meeting of Consul-Generals and Honorary Consuls January 13 in Washington, D.C. The presentation -- informed by my work at the Pell Center... Read more »
Speaking on overcoming American divisions at Milken Global, Beverly Hills, California
Beverly Hilton Beverly Hills, CA, United StatesI'll be speaking on the work of Nationhood Lab and the lessons of American Nations and Union at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills May 1. It's... 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.