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 »
Articles Tagged: Nationhood Lab
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 »
Lessons from the pandemic: the regional geography of distancing, vaccinations, and death
With federal vaccine and immunization policy in turmoil, Nationhood Lab took a deep dive into the United States’ experience in the Covid-19 pandemic, revealing stark and consistent regional differences in… 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 »
New Map: The American Nations regions across North America
Earlier this summer, over at Nationhood Lab, we extended our data models to enable researchers to apply the American Nations model in Canada, This also let us create, for the… Read more »
Previewing Nations Apart in Blue Hill, Maine, Oct. 25
I’ll be presenting at the 2025 Word Literary Arts Festival in Blue Hill, Maine on my forthcoming book, Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America on the evening of… Read more »
Presenting Nations Apart, Chicago, Illinois, Dec. 4
I’ll be speaking about my new book, Nations Apart, and the work of Nationhood Lab on the geography of health at the University of Illinois Chicago the morning of Dec. 4…. Read more »
Speaking about Nations Apart, Medford, Massachusetts, Dec. 2
I’ll be speaking about my new book, Nations Apart, and the work of Nationhood Lab at my alma mater, Tufts University, on the evening of Dec. 2. The event, hosted… Read more »
Presenting Nations Apart, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Nov. 18
I’ll be discussing and signing my new book, Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America, at Schuler Books in Ann Arbor, Michigan the evening of November 18. It’s free… 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.