For the nation’s 250th birthday, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard spoke with the BBC and Politico about the meaning of the U.S. history, how the country expanded, and the still… Read more »
Articles Tagged: immigration
For Politico: the historical roots of our (regional) immigration divide
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 »
Speaking on the American Nations and the geography of immigration (virtual), Mar. 10
I’ll be returning to the Napa-based Saint Helena Virtual Forum to speak on the geography of U.S. gun violence, American Nations, and the work of Nationhood Lab , for a… Read more »
Immigration and the American Nations
Over at Nationhood Lab I’ve published a detailed study of the regional geography of immigration and immigration opinion. Using the American Nations model it demonstrates how unevenly foreign immigration has… 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.