September 14, 2023 WASHINGTON – On the invitation of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan), the director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab addressed the weekly… Read more »
Articles Tagged: US politics
Speaking on the American Nations trilogy at National Defense University, Washington, DC, Dec. 6 (private)
I will be making my annual speech to the American Studies international fellows at National Defense University in Washington, D.C.. for the fourth year running. This is a private event… Read more »
Talking with Die Welt about the challenges to U.S. nationhood
Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard, a historian of the U.S. regionalism and nationhood development, recently spoke with Die Welt, one of Germany’s leading national daily newspapers, about the crisis of… Read more »
How a “freedom-and-fairness” agenda can save the U.S. republic and federation
In the new print edition of Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard laid out how a “freedom-and-fairness” political agenda can steer the United States out of the dangerous, demagogue-infested… Read more »
Speaking on the American Nations and the geography of gun violence (virtual), July 11
I’ll be speaking on the geography of U.S. gun violence, American Nations, and the work of Nationhood Lab at the Napa-based Saint Helena Virtual Forum, which records July 11th. I’ll… Read more »
Speaking on Union and the fraught effort to create a U.S. national story; Columbia, S.C., Oct. 26
I’ll be speaking about Union and the fraught effort to create a U.S. national story — from scratch — starting in the 1830s at the University of South Carolina’s Humanities… Read more »
Woodard discusses Nationhood Lab’s geography of gun violence work with Maine Public and Wisconsin Public Radio
Colin Woodard, director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab, spoke May 10 with two statewide public radio networks about the Pell Center project’s latest work on the geography of gun… Read more »
Speaking on American Nations, Boothbay Harbor, Maine; Aug. 22 (Private)
On August 22nd I’ll be giving a talk on North America regionalism and how it’s shaped our past, present, and future — this the topic of my book, American Nations: A History… Read more »
Nationhood Lab website and data journalism initiative launches
The website for my new think tank project at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Nationhood Lab, went live last week with fresh American Nations-powered analysis of… Read more »
Speaking on the American condition, past at present, at the Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. (Private)
I’ll be joining France’s Ambassador to the U.S., Phillipe Etienne, to speak about the backstory to the present American condition and other relevant political and historical phenomena at the Embassy… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six 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 the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.