Colin Woodard
@colinwoodard.bsky.social
Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org
Greater New Haven, CT folks: these newly signed books await you at the @barnesandnoble.com’s in Milford (L) and North Haven:
November 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Greater New Haven, CT folks: these newly signed books await you at the @barnesandnoble.com’s in Milford (L) and North Haven:
Newburyport, Mass.: @jabberwockybooks.bsky.social has these newly signed titles, just in time for the holidays. Please read responsibly.
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Newburyport, Mass.: @jabberwockybooks.bsky.social has these newly signed titles, just in time for the holidays. Please read responsibly.
Southern Massachusettsians, rejoice! The @barnesandnoble.com in North Dartmouth has these newly signed books awaiting good homes,
Including the brand new one, Nations Apart.
Including the brand new one, Nations Apart.
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Southern Massachusettsians, rejoice! The @barnesandnoble.com in North Dartmouth has these newly signed books awaiting good homes,
Including the brand new one, Nations Apart.
Including the brand new one, Nations Apart.
Hey Greater New Haven, CT: the @barnesandnoble.com in Milford has these newly signed books just waiting for you, your loved ones, and your family pets (if they can read.)
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hey Greater New Haven, CT: the @barnesandnoble.com in Milford has these newly signed books just waiting for you, your loved ones, and your family pets (if they can read.)
Rhode Islanders: I'm presenting the new book, Nations Apart, tonight at Nationhood Lab's home base, Salve Regina U (@salvereginauni.bsky.social) in Newport. Free. Public. Registration info:
events.salve.edu/event/nation...
events.salve.edu/event/nation...
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Rhode Islanders: I'm presenting the new book, Nations Apart, tonight at Nationhood Lab's home base, Salve Regina U (@salvereginauni.bsky.social) in Newport. Free. Public. Registration info:
events.salve.edu/event/nation...
events.salve.edu/event/nation...
D.C. friends: I'll be presenting my new book, Nations Apart -- which shows how we got here as a country and what we can do about it -- a Politics and Prose Bookstore's flagship Connecticut Ave location the evening of November 13. Come say hello!
Details: politics-prose.com/colin-woodar...
Details: politics-prose.com/colin-woodar...
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
D.C. friends: I'll be presenting my new book, Nations Apart -- which shows how we got here as a country and what we can do about it -- a Politics and Prose Bookstore's flagship Connecticut Ave location the evening of November 13. Come say hello!
Details: politics-prose.com/colin-woodar...
Details: politics-prose.com/colin-woodar...
South Portland, Mainers: the B&N near the Maine Mall has you covered for signed copies of this author’s titles.
November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
South Portland, Mainers: the B&N near the Maine Mall has you covered for signed copies of this author’s titles.
Portland, Mainers: the good folks at @printbookstore.bsky.social, have these newly signed books in stock. The holidays are coming - yiu know what to do!
November 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Portland, Mainers: the good folks at @printbookstore.bsky.social, have these newly signed books in stock. The holidays are coming - yiu know what to do!
Portland, Maine: Nations Apart went on sale today and it and its cousins are all newly signed at Sherman’s on Exchange. Perfect gift for the doomed!
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Portland, Maine: Nations Apart went on sale today and it and its cousins are all newly signed at Sherman’s on Exchange. Perfect gift for the doomed!
This was a fun evening. Sold out crowd seeded with many friends for the launch of Nations Apart. Thanks, Mechanics' Hall and Longfellow Books for making it happen. Resurgam!
November 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This was a fun evening. Sold out crowd seeded with many friends for the launch of Nations Apart. Thanks, Mechanics' Hall and Longfellow Books for making it happen. Resurgam!
Tonight -- the on sale day for Nations Apart -- I'll be at @belmontbooks.bsky.social in the eponymous Boston suburb. (Yes, the town was named for the bookstore... Don't argue, I'm a historian.) Come say hello.
November 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Tonight -- the on sale day for Nations Apart -- I'll be at @belmontbooks.bsky.social in the eponymous Boston suburb. (Yes, the town was named for the bookstore... Don't argue, I'm a historian.) Come say hello.
Mainers: my new book, Nations Apart, has its "exclusive, worldwide premiere" in Portland the evening of Nov. 3 at Mechanics Hall, a ticketed event co-hosted by Longfellow Books. The subject: how we got here as a country and what we can do about it. Register: mechanicshallmaine.org/events/colin...
October 28, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Mainers: my new book, Nations Apart, has its "exclusive, worldwide premiere" in Portland the evening of Nov. 3 at Mechanics Hall, a ticketed event co-hosted by Longfellow Books. The subject: how we got here as a country and what we can do about it. Register: mechanicshallmaine.org/events/colin...
Long Islanders: I'll be presenting my new book, Nations Apart -- which explains how we got here and what we can do about it - at Long Island U's CW Post campus Nov. 6. Gold Coast Forum/Theodore's Books event. Come say hello.
Free, but registration required: theodoresbooks.com/event/colin-...
Free, but registration required: theodoresbooks.com/event/colin-...
October 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Long Islanders: I'll be presenting my new book, Nations Apart -- which explains how we got here and what we can do about it - at Long Island U's CW Post campus Nov. 6. Gold Coast Forum/Theodore's Books event. Come say hello.
Free, but registration required: theodoresbooks.com/event/colin-...
Free, but registration required: theodoresbooks.com/event/colin-...
Metro Bostonians: my new book, Nations Apart -- which explains how we got here and what we can do about it -- goes on sale Nov. 4... and I'll be introducing it at Belmont's own @belmontbooks.bsky.social Come say hello!
belmontbooks.com/event/2025-1...
belmontbooks.com/event/2025-1...
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Metro Bostonians: my new book, Nations Apart -- which explains how we got here and what we can do about it -- goes on sale Nov. 4... and I'll be introducing it at Belmont's own @belmontbooks.bsky.social Come say hello!
belmontbooks.com/event/2025-1...
belmontbooks.com/event/2025-1...
Midcoast Mainers: I'll be joining Robin Alden to celebrate the legendary (soon to be retired) journalist @tomgroening.bsky.social and to discuss the state of local, community journalism Oct. 30 in Belfast, courtesy of @islandinstitute.bsky.social.
Details: www.islandinstitute.org/event/trust-...
Details: www.islandinstitute.org/event/trust-...
October 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Midcoast Mainers: I'll be joining Robin Alden to celebrate the legendary (soon to be retired) journalist @tomgroening.bsky.social and to discuss the state of local, community journalism Oct. 30 in Belfast, courtesy of @islandinstitute.bsky.social.
Details: www.islandinstitute.org/event/trust-...
Details: www.islandinstitute.org/event/trust-...
Regarding COVID vaccinations and deaths, there are big regional disparities in both.
(Both as per 2/23/23, when the CDC stopped updating official data.)
(Both as per 2/23/23, when the CDC stopped updating official data.)
September 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Regarding COVID vaccinations and deaths, there are big regional disparities in both.
(Both as per 2/23/23, when the CDC stopped updating official data.)
(Both as per 2/23/23, when the CDC stopped updating official data.)
Hey, James. Yeah, current state senate districts, because Alaska reported election results this way. We just made a key map of that:
September 11, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hey, James. Yeah, current state senate districts, because Alaska reported election results this way. We just made a key map of that:
Well, more than two, but yeah. Here's life expectancy: www.nationhoodlab.org/the-regional...
September 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Well, more than two, but yeah. Here's life expectancy: www.nationhoodlab.org/the-regional...
Ever wish you had a map of the 2024 US prez election AND 2025 Canadian federal election results via the #AmericanNations map? If so, I like you already. And here you go, via Nationhood Lab @pellcenter.bsky.social:
September 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Ever wish you had a map of the 2024 US prez election AND 2025 Canadian federal election results via the #AmericanNations map? If so, I like you already. And here you go, via Nationhood Lab @pellcenter.bsky.social:
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
August 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Downeast Maine: these newly signed books await good homes at Blue Hill Books. I may have been involved .
July 31, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Downeast Maine: these newly signed books await good homes at Blue Hill Books. I may have been involved .
Central Mainers: these wonderfully placed books at Barnes & Noble - Augusta have just been signed by the author, somehow, magically. (As well as a Lobster Coast over in the Local Interest section.)
July 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Central Mainers: these wonderfully placed books at Barnes & Noble - Augusta have just been signed by the author, somehow, magically. (As well as a Lobster Coast over in the Local Interest section.)
Looking forward to joining @moreincommonus.bsky.social's Daniel Yudkin July 24 to talk about our separate, but interlocking findings about the core principles most Americans still share and what we can do with that knowledge. This webinar is free, but you'll need to register:
July 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Looking forward to joining @moreincommonus.bsky.social's Daniel Yudkin July 24 to talk about our separate, but interlocking findings about the core principles most Americans still share and what we can do with that knowledge. This webinar is free, but you'll need to register:
I make my case for a shared American story and why its existentially important in this moment on PBS's "Story in the Public Square," produced at Rhode Island PBS with my colleagues at @pellcenter.bsky.social. Now streaming free here:
www.pbs.org/video/story-...
www.pbs.org/video/story-...
July 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I make my case for a shared American story and why its existentially important in this moment on PBS's "Story in the Public Square," produced at Rhode Island PBS with my colleagues at @pellcenter.bsky.social. Now streaming free here:
www.pbs.org/video/story-...
www.pbs.org/video/story-...
I'd say S.C. planters created the Deep South -- the lowlands of GA, MS, AL, north FL, east TX, river counties of Ark and TN -- which have profound cultural and political differences from the rest of "the South" (really the Tidewater, Greater Appalachia.) www.nationhoodlab.org/a-balkanized...
June 19, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'd say S.C. planters created the Deep South -- the lowlands of GA, MS, AL, north FL, east TX, river counties of Ark and TN -- which have profound cultural and political differences from the rest of "the South" (really the Tidewater, Greater Appalachia.) www.nationhoodlab.org/a-balkanized...