Colin Woodard is a writer, historian, and an award-winning journalist who has reported from more than fifty foreign countries and six continents. He is a correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor and The Chronicle for Higher Education, and his work has appeared in The Economist, Smithsonian, San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, and dozens of other publications. He is the author of American Character, The Lobster Coast, The Republic of Pirates, and Ocean's End and lives in Portland, Maine. Colin will be joined in conversation with Tom Gjelton, the Religion and Belief Correspondent for National Public Radio news.