Article Topic: France

Talking American Nations and Nationhood Lab at the French Embassy in Washington

Posted February 6th, 2023 & filed under American Character, American Nations, D.C., France, Nationhood Lab, Pell Center, Union, US History, US politics.

I’m cross-posting this Pell Center news release dated 30 January 2023: Woodard Speaks at French Embassy In Washington WASHINGTON – The director of Pell Center’s new Nationhood Lab project addressed… Read more »

Talking American Nations and the 2020 election with Denmark’s Zetland Magasin

Posted October 31st, 2020 & filed under American Nations, Canada, Denmark, France, Lobster Coast, Maine history, Maine politics, media appearances, Union, US History, US politics.

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 »

Talking pirates with Discovery’s “Expedition Unknown” (before the pandemic)

Posted March 19th, 2020 & filed under buried treasure, Caribbean, France, Indian Ocean, media appearances, pirates, Republic of Pirates, World History.

At the end of August, long before the new coronavirus infected its first human, I was in Paris talking with Josh Gates, host of Discovery Channel’s “Expedition Unknown” about the… Read more »

In France

Posted August 29th, 2019 & filed under France, media appearances, pirates, Republic of Pirates, World History.

I’ve been in France this week. I can’t say too much about it, except that it involved a television shoot, the Museum of the Freemasons in Paris, and maybe something… 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.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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