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Colin Woodard

Colin Woodard is the author of Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America and Union: the Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood. He is director of Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy.
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God’s Country: America250 History Comic Book Has Very Strong Opinions About the Constitution
The congressionally licensed series asserts that God created the United States and offers takes on Roe v. Wade, birthright citizenship, and even Clarence Thomas.
07.03.26 | 7:00 am
The Perplexing Geography of Abortion Opinion
Abortion bans are unpopular everywhere. So why are some U.S. regions imposing them anyway? The answer goes back centuries.
05.27.24 | 8:07 am
What Netflix’s ‘Lost Pirate Kingdom’ Got Right (And Wrong) About The Golden Age Pirate Gang
04.06.21 | 9:00 am
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, served two four-year terms from 1913-1921. Among his accomplishments was the establishment of the Federal Reserve banking system and the creation of the Federal Trade Commission. He declared war on Germany in 1917, during World War I, and attended the Versailles Peace Conference ending the war. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 for his Fourteen Point peace plan and his work toward establishing the League of Nations. (Photo by Oscar White/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images) Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, served two four-year terms from 1913-1921. Among his accomplishments was the establishment of the Federal Reserve banking system and the creation of the Federal Trade Commission. He declared war on Germany in 1917, during World War I, and attended the Versailles Peace Conference ending the war. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 for his Fourteen Point peace plan and his work toward establishing the League of Nations. (Photo by Oscar White/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
Woodrow Wilson Was Even Worse Than You Think
An incorrigible white supremacist, his racism was fundamental even to his “idealistic” plans for a peaceful post-WWI world order.
06.29.20 | 4:49 pm

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