I’ll be doing an informal Q&A and signing books at Madison, Wisconsin’s very own Leopold’s 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 to life in my most recent book, Union — or about American Nations, Republic of Pirates, or any of my other work.
I spoke with Wisconsin Public Radio about Union when the book first came out, mid-pandemic, and the crux of my argument about Turner – who headed the young University of Wisconsin’s history department – is laid out in this OpEd in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
It’s free and open to the public. And they serve cocktails. And coffee. Come on by, it’ll be fun. Details here.
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.