Articles Tagged: data journalism. US History

Presenting at the MinnPost Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct. 10

Posted July 23rd, 2026 & filed under .

I’ll be presenting my work on the crisis in American democracy and what to do about it at the 2026 MinnPost Festival in Minneapolis, October 10. More details to follow.

For Politico: the historical roots of our (regional) immigration divide

Posted January 13th, 2026 & filed under Media.

For Politico, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard has written a magazine-length feature about the regional maldistribution of the “Great Wave” immigrants of 1880-1924 and how it’s shaped the world we live in today, including the… Read more »

COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven 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 Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, 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, a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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