On the evening of Labor Day, September 7, I’ll be giving a virtual talk and answering questions about Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood and the… Read more »
Article Topic: Maine history
Speaking on UNION and the creation and future of U.S. nationhood, Sept. 7 via Jesup Memorial Library
Speaking on Maine’s past and Lobster Coast via the Schoodic Institute, Sept.8
On September 8 at 7pm Eastern, I’ll be talking about the backstory of Maine on the occasion of its Bicentennial: a harrowing and little understood saga of war and betrayal,… Read more »
Speaking on Maine’s formative history (virtually), August 20 via Biddeford Pool Summer Speaker Series
This Thursday, August 20, I’ll be speaking on, well, why Maine and Mainers are they way they are and how events centuries ago shaped our fundamental, postcolonial character.It’s the subject… Read more »
Racist names banned by Maine law decades ago still on official registry
Based on a reader’s tip, last week I discovered that Maine’s official registry of coastal islands still contained several with names banned by law decades ago, including three with the… Read more »
Remembering the Malaga Island tragedy
Earlier this month my Press Herald colleagues asked me to record a video bit for the “this day in Maine” Bicentennial of Statehood feature on a story I reported on… Read more »
Traveling via book? Lonely Planet recommends Lobster Coast for Maine
The pandemic has us all grounded, with transportation cut back, unnecessary travel dangerous, and most international borders sealed off. But the folks at Lonely Planet, the travel guide company whose… Read more »
Colony, the Press Herald Maine Bicentennial series, concludes
With the world facing the biggest social, economic, and epidemiological crisis in at least two generations, I neglected to post the final two installments of “Colony,” my six part Maine… Read more »
Colony Chapter 4: the squatters rise up against Boston’s Land Barons
Maine is celebrating the bicentennial of its statehood this year, but the story of our beginnings lies in the millennia and centuries that preceded March 15th, 1820, the day we… Read more »
Colony, Chapter 3: Massachusetts’ conquest of Maine
Maine is celebrating the bicentennial of its statehood this year, but the story of our beginnings lies in the millennia and centuries that preceded March 15th, 1820, the day we… Read more »
Colony, Chapter 2: Maine and Massachusetts were different from the start
Maine is celebrating the bicentennial of its statehood this year, but the story of our beginnings lies in the millennia and centuries that preceded March 15th, 1820, the day we… 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.