“Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America” with Colin Woodward
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
The Colony House | Washington Square, Newport
Admission $15 – $20 per person | *Student Discounts now available $10 with valid student ID
6pm to 7pm; doors open at 5pm for a complimentary reception
The United States is facing a period of significant political and foreign policy transformation that’s testing the nation’s democratic foundations and is shattering our longstanding alliances with other democracies. With groundbreaking original data and historical insights, Nations Apart is an essential guide to understanding why Americans are so divided on many hot button issues, creating geographic fissures that have been exploited by authoritarians. Woodard reveals America’s structural and historical vulnerabilities that made this crisis possible, the role of regional cultures in enabling it, and how a shared national purpose can play a decisive role in turning the tide.
Combining compelling storytelling with scholarly vigor, Nations Apart offers a blueprint for bridging the rifts that divide us and ensuring the American dream of democratic self-government will reach its 300th birthday.
Colin Woodward is the founder and director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy at Salve Regina University, an interdisciplinary research, writing, testing and dissemination project focused on counteracting the authoritarian threat to American democracy and the centrifugal forces threatening the federation’s stability.
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