Colin Woodard

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Colin Woodard is the director of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy. He is the author of six books, including American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.

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.

By Colin Woodard | May 27, 2024 8:07 a.m.

What Netflix’s ‘Lost Pirate Kingdom’ Got Right (And Wrong) About The Golden Age Pirate Gang

By Colin Woodard | April 6, 2021 9:00 a.m.

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.

By Colin Woodard | June 29, 2020 4:49 p.m.