How the Myth of the American Frontier Got Its Start; Frederick Jackson Turner’s thesis informed decades of scholarship and culture. Then he realized he was wrong; Smithsonian Magazine, HISTORY, January/February 2023.
Midterms: How Rival Regional Cultures Explain Our Sharp Divides; The polarized electorate isn’t blue/red or urban/rural. It’s the colonizing projects of the 17th and 18th centuries; Washington Monthly (online); POLITICS, 23 February 202
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.