Article Topic: Lobster Coast

Maine member sues Trump’s voter fraud commission for access to proceedings

Posted November 9th, 2017 & filed under Donald Trump, Lobster Coast, Maine, Maine politics, New Hampshire, Portland Press Herald, US politics.

Today Maine’s member of President Trump’s voter fraud commission sued the body in federal court after its staff for weeks ignored his request for documents and information about its deliberations…. Read more »

Talking American Character, Lobster Coast on CSPAN

Posted October 20th, 2017 & filed under American Character, American Nations, fishing, Lobster Coast, Maine, media appearances, Oceans, speaking, US History, US politics.

The indefatigable team at CSPAN’s City Tour came to Portland, Maine this summer and the segments they produced are airing this weekend, spotlighting our little city.I was pleased to record… Read more »

Exploring the lasting legacy of early Maine and New Hampshire

Posted August 2nd, 2017 & filed under American Indian Affairs, Lobster Coast, Maine, Maine dispatches, Maine history, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Portland Press Herald, US History.

Readers of The Lobster Coast and American Nations are aware of the lasting effects of Colonial Era events on the future trajectories and characteristics of North America’s disparate regional cultures… 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 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 the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram 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.

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 and a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy.

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