I recently completed my sixth book, which I expect will be on sale in the summer 2020. It’s on the struggle to create a story of United States nationhood, told via the lives of the key figures who fought it out in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
I’ll have a lot more to say about it in the coming months, but I riffed a little on some of the themes in this blog post for the Law & Liberty blog, “The fraught battle to create an American nationhood.” (That should really read “United States Nationhood,” of course.) Hope you enjoy this small hors d’oeuvre.
This was itself a product of an academic symposium I participated in out in Boulder, Colorado this winter on “Liberty and the American Character.” Some of my fellow participants have blog posts on their takes on this topic, including Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen, Villanova’s Colleen Sheehan, and Michigan State dean emeritus William B. Allen.
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.