In an opinion essay in this Sunday’s edition of Maine’s largest newspaper, the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, the Pell Center’s Colin Woodard shared the results of Nationhood… Read more »
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Speaking with the New York Times about regional terminology
The New York Times recently interviewed Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard about the origins and meaning of various geographical terms in popular culture, from the Sun Belt and Rust Belt… Read more »
Speaking on the crisis in U.S. democracy and environmental issues, Orono, Maine, Sept. 26
I will be delivering the annual Libby Lecture on Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of Maine’s flagship campus in Orono this coming Thursday, October. 26. The talk… Read more »
Defending the liberal arts on UNE’s “Oh, the Humanities Podcast” ahead of Sept. 23 talk
The University of New England’s Center for Global Humanities has kindly invited me to give a talk on “Uniting Divided America” at their Portland campus Sept. 23. Ahead of… Read more »
Speaking on rebooting the U.S. in Stonington, Maine, Aug. 28
Downeast Maine: I’ll be speaking on the crisis facing U.S. democracy, how we got here, why we’re vulnerable and what we can do about it, at the Seaside Series hosted… Read more »
Speaking on the U.S. democratic crisis in Newport, Rhode Island, July 17
Rhode Islanders: I’ll be speaking about the work Nationhood Lab is doing to help prevent a collapse of our democracy and federation — and the need for a revitalized national… Read more »
Lobster Coast’s updated 20th anniversary edition
To my amazement my second book, The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, turns 20 this summer. For this occasion Viking let me add a… Read more »
Speaking on the U.S. democratic crisis in Brunswick, Maine, June 5
For the home county crowd: I’ll be speaking on the crisis facing U.S. democracy, how we got here, why we’re vulnerable and what we can do about it, at the… Read more »
Discussing the threats to US democracy and national survival, Portland, Maine, April 3
My former employers at Maine’s Portland Press Herald are hosting me for their Newsroom Live series, a public, in-person lecture, discussion and Q&A, on my work to promote the United… Read more »
Introducing 2023 statewide read on Maine Public radio with Morgan Talty and Meghan Gillis
The Maine Humanities Council hosts an annual statewide summer reading program whereby the have a Maine author select two recent Maine titles that, hopefully, tens of thousands will read and… 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.