The Friends of City Park — the public space in Charlestown, Massachusetts created when Boston’s Big Dig moved I-93 underground — have asked me to deliver the keynote at their… Read more »
Articles Tagged: Nations Apart
Speaking on the historical roots of Pennsylvania politics, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Oct. 22
Philadelphia’s Carpenter’s Hall, where the First Continental Congress met in 1774, has invited me back to speak on the historical roots of Pennsylvania politics, the answers to which lie in… Read more »
Presenting at the MinnPost Festival, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Oct. 10
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.
Is the U.S. a nation-state? How does it hold together? Discussing national identity with the CSCE’s Transatlantic podcast
The Helsinki Accords — signed in 1975 by the Soviet Union, U.S., Canada and every country in Europe (save Albania and Andorra) — were a landmark development in the acknowledgement… Read more »
Presenting on the regional geography of health and wellbeing in the U.S., Newport, Rhode Island, June 18
The health research collaborative I belong to is presenting our work at Nationhood Lab’s home institution, the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, at Salve Regina University in… Read more »
Speaking on Nations Apart, Gardiner, Maine, June 4
I’ll be presenting on Nations Apart and the work of Nationhood Lab at the historic Johnson Hall Opera House in Gardiner, Maine on the evening of June 4, hosted by… Read more »
Sharing Nations Apart with public television’s “Story in the Public Square”
Last week, I was the guest on the nationally syndicated public television series “Story in the Public Square,” which is produced by the Pell Center and Rhode Island’s Ocean State… Read more »
Speaking on the crisis in U.S. democracy and what to do about it at Emmanuel College, Salem Athenaeum
APRIL 19, 2026 BOSTON – Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard shared Nationhood Lab’s work on American divisions and the story that unites the U.S. to audiences at Emmanuel College Boston and… Read more »
Presenting at the WBUR Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, May 29
I’ll be joining a panel on the polarization of America and how it happened at the WBUR Festival, May 29 in Boston. More details to follow, but this link leads… Read more »
Discussing the “Last Great Hope” of America at 250, Wells, Maine, July 14
For the 250th, I’ll be speaking around the country on the eternal struggle between proponents of the Declaration’s ideals and advocates of blood and soil ethnonationalism to define the United… 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.