My American Nations-powered series over at Medium, “Balkanized America,” continues with a second installment on the deep divisions between our regional cultures in the colonial period, Revolutionary era, and early republic. The article, “The (Almost) Civil War of 1789,” is available to subscribers and and is one of at least a half dozen monthly pieces rolling which will run the gamut from hidden history to electoral analysis.
The first part of the series — an up-to-date overview of the American Nations model and its wide-ranging implications and utility — published to the site last month. [Update, 9/22/18: the third installment, on new research showing a genetic legacy as well, is up now.]
Medium, the blog hosting site created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is developing a members only section, and invited me to create the series. I hope you enjoy.
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.