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 »
Articles Tagged: US History
Presenting Nations Apart in Bar Harbor, Maine, Sept. 17
I’ll be presenting on Nations Apart and the work of Nationhood Lab at the MDI Biological Lab’s Maren Auditorium in Bar Harbor Sept. 17, as the Acadia Senior College’s annual… Read more »
Maine Sunday Telegram on Nations Apart: “Urgent and couldn’t be more timely”
The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram – the largest newspaper in my native state — is one of the few dailies that still has its own book reviews and book… Read more »
Joining the America 250th panel, Newport, Rhode Island, Mar. 3
Salve Regina University, where Nationhood Lab is based, is hosting a panel discussion on America’s founding and the legacy of the Declaration of Independence Mar. 3. The event, which is… Read more »
For Smithsonian: when New York City tried to become its own country
Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard has a feature in the current print issue of Smithsonian Magazine on the time New York City tried to secede from the United States and… Read more »
Speaking on Nations Apart, Richmond, Virginia, Oct. 12 (Private)
I’ll be presenting on my most recent book, Nations Apart, at the Woman’s Club of Richmond in Virginia’s capital city on October 12 at noon. It’s an invited event.
Speaking on the crisis in U.S. democracy and how we got here, Boston, Massachusetts, April 10 (invited)
I’ll be delivering Emmanuel College’s 2026 Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Lecture on their Boston campus at noon on April 10th on the deep background as to how the U.S. republic fell… Read more »
Speaking on Nations Apart and the crisis in U.S. democracy, Newport, Rhode Island, Mar. 4
I’ll be delivering a guest lecture on Nations Apart and the deepening crisis in U.S. democracy at the Newport Historical Society in Newport, Rhode Island the evening of March 4…. Read more »
Speaking on Nations Apart and the crisis in U.S. democracy, Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 16
I’ll be presenting Nations Apart, the work of Nationhood Lab, and the ongoing crisis in the United States at the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center the afternoon of Jan…. Read more »
Sharing Nationhood Lab’s work in the “American Fridays” lecture series, Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 16 (invited)
Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has invited me to speak to scholars and think tankers at their “American Fridays” lecture series in Warsaw the morning of January 16. It’s 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.