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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 »

Launching Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center

I’m pleased to announce that I‘ve launched a think tank project built on the intellectual foundations of the American Nations trilogy and aiming to help save the U.S. republic and… Read more »

19 House Republicans voted against McCarthy six times. Guess which American Nations they’re from.

The 118th Congress has gotten off to a dysfunctional start, with Republican House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-California) — a Trump sycophant who has soft-pedaled the 1/6 coup attempt — failing… Read more »

How Europeans look at the U.S, post midterms

With authoritarianism on the rise — and Russia attacking its neighbors to the East — Europeans rightly wonder if they can still count on the U.S. to remain their primary… Read more »

Discussing the U.S. midterm results at EEAS, Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 16 (private)

While in Brussels next week, I’ll be discussing the political and diplomatic implications of the U.S midterm elections at the European External Action Service, the diplomatic and security arm of… Read more »