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Colin Woodard provides the history of now, the context to understanding events and conditions around us, and the knowledge to make better decisions about how to respond.
Journalism
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Blog
Was there any historic truth to Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean films?
Dan Lefebrve has a popular podcast — Based on a True Story — in which he asks an expert how well a given Hollywood film matched up to historical reality. I joined him recently to talk about the Golden Age Pirates — subject of my history, The Republic of... ....Read More
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University and State and National Affairs Writer at the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, where he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.