The day after former President Donald Trump won the 2024 election, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interviewed Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard about the results, an analysis via the American Nations… Read more »
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Speaking with Montreal’s La Presse about the American Nations and U.S. politics
The Washington correspondent of Montreal’s La Presse, the traditional newspaper of record in Quebec, recently came to Maine and reached out to me about American Nations, his book about U.S…. Read more »
Edmonton Journal columnist explains Alberta via American Nations
I’m always grateful when someone who speaks for and from a place I don’t know all that intimately uses American Nations to explain local identity, a sign that I’ve not… Read more »
Quebec to New England transmission project could be delayed by rival
Here in Maine one of the most controversial public policy issues of recent years has been over a project to connect the massive hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec with the… Read more »
Four dams, the Kennebec River and the future of US Atlantic salmon in the balance
While the pandemic has been raging across the world, a high-stakes battle over the future of one of Maine’s largest river systems has been playing out in an obscure federal… Read more »
Talking with CBC-Nova Scotia about the 400-year backstory to the 2020 election
The rest of the world is trying to understand what’s going on with the United States and its (currently not quite resolved) election. So I very much enjoyed sharing the… Read more »
Talking American Nations and the 2020 election with Denmark’s Zetland Magasin
The world is watching as the U.S. staggers towards the highest stakes election since the 1870s Tuesday, and some reporters have been drawn to American Nations, American Character, Union and… Read more »
How New Brunswick stopped Covid-19 in its tracks
The Canadian province of New Brunswick has weathered the pandemic with zero deaths and no long term care outbreaks and is currently down to just two active cases and no… Read more »
How Gov. LePage spent his final year in office
Maine’s erstwhile governor, Paul LePage, often tried to keep his travels secret, even taxpayer-funded trips, like his stays at the Trump International Hotel in Washington or his trade mission to… Read more »
Six years after lawmakers reverse ban, alewives have banner run in St. Croix River
For seven years now, I’ve reported on the strange saga of the alewives of the St. Croix River, which forms the border between the US and Canada in eastern Maine… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.