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 »
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Speaking on history of immigration in Maine, Portland, Jan. 18
Portland Ovations is convening a panel discussion on the history of immigration in Maine on January 18th at the Maine Historical Society in Portland, and I’m pleased to be taking… Read more »
In Boston, talking about American nationhood and its problems with The American Question.
Spent yesterday in the belly of the beast, the old Massachusetts Bay Colony, doing an interview for this forthcoming documentary film project, The American Question. Filmmakers Guy Seemann and James… Read more »
Speaking on American Nations at UMass Amherst, Oct. 31
I’ll be presenting on American Nations: The History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on October 31, starting at about… Read more »
Speaking on American Nations, Needham, Mass., June 5
I’ll be speaking about North American regionalism and its effects on U.S. politics, history, identity and most everything else in the western Boston suburb of Needham on Sunday, June 5… Read more »
Speaking on the Scots-Irish legacy in Maine and the nation, Aug. 14, Brunswick, Maine
This is the 300th anniversary of the coming of the Scots-Irish to New England and to mark the occasion, there’s a multi-day conference taking place this week at Bowdoin College… Read more »
Talking Maine’s 1820 split from Mass. with KQED’s California Report
This November, Californians will be asked if they want to split their state into three, a measure spearheaded by venture capitalist Tim Draper. I wrote about some of the problems… Read more »
Speaking on American Nations and the gun debate, Gloucester, Mass., May 19
I’ll be speaking about how the existence of the American Nations helps explain enormous geographic disparities in violence, capital punishment, and gun policies at a public event on Massachusetts’ North… Read more »
Exploring the lasting legacy of early Maine and New Hampshire
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, 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.