The Margaret Chase Smith Library, in the late U.S. senator’s hometown of Skowhegan, has invited me to deliver the annual Leeke-Shaw Lecture there the morning of November 24. Details here…. Read more »
Articles Tagged: national narrative
OpEd: America is sliding toward authoritarianism. It’s really unpopular
In an opinion essay in Maine’s Bangor Daily News, Nationhood Lab director Colin warned the United States was already a hybrid regime — no longer a democracy, not yet an… Read more »
Speaking on Nations Apart and the fight over the U.S. national narrative, Salem, Massachusetts., April 16
The Salem Athenaeum has invited me to speak on the fight over the American national story, George Bancroft’s role therein, and the implications for today on April 16 at 7pm…. Read more »
Sharing America’s shared national story with Issue One, Sept. 30 (virtual)
Issue One and their Council for American Democracy have invited me to speak on Nationhood Lab’s work on a rebooted civic national narrative for the United States at a virtual,… Read more »
Discussing America’s shared story, Washington, D.C., Oct. 29 (private)
I’ll be joining a panel to guide the discussion of the United States’ shared national story at New America in Washington, D.C. the morning of Oct. 29. To attend this… Read more »
Sharing our rebooted national story — and why we need one — on PBS’s “Story in the Public Square”
On July 4, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard discussed the project’s groundbreaking work on a shared American story on “Story in the Public Square,” the award-winning public affairs television series broadcast… Read more »
Presenting Nations Apart, Washington, D.C., Nov. 13
I’ll be returning to Politics & Prose’s flagship store on Connecticut Avenue for the Washington, DC launch of my new book, Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America, November… Read more »
Presenting Nationhood Lab’s national narrative work with More in Common, July 24 (Virtual)
I’ll be joining More in Common’s Daniel Yudkin for a joint webinar on Americans’ shared story, featuring Nationhood Lab’s findings on a common civic national narrative and More in Common’s… Read more »
Presenting a rebooted US national narrative to AEI
In a new essay published by the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard shared the Pell Center project’s findings on a shared national… Read more »
Speaking on America’s shared story, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 16 (private)
The Carpenter’s Hall Company and the Philadelphia Visitor’s Bureau have invited me to speak on Nationhood Lab’s work on a rebooted civic national narrative for the United States at an… 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.