Article Topic: New England

A U.S. breakup would be a disaster, but if it happens expect an independent New England

Posted August 19th, 2022 & filed under American Nations, Boston Globe, Massachusetts, Media, nationalism, Nationhood Lab, New England, OpEd, Union, US History, US politics.

Back when American Nations came out in 2011, a lot of august experts dismissed the warning in the epilogue that if we were unable to form better compromises between the… Read more »

Quebec to New England transmission project could be delayed by rival

Posted July 28th, 2021 & filed under Canada, climate change, energy, environment, forests, Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Portland Press Herald, Quebec.

Here in Maine one of the most controversial public policy issues of recent years has been over a project to connect the massive hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec with the… Read more »

Union paperback launch event, June 24, Blue Hill, Maine

Posted June 17th, 2021 & filed under Maine, Massachusetts, Media, New England, speaking, Union.

I’ll be speaking on my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the story of United States Nationhood, in a special fundraiser for the Word Literary Arts Festival on June… Read more »

Talking UNION with Texas Public Radio, Northeast Public Radio

Posted July 4th, 2020 & filed under media appearances, nationalism, New England, New York, Texas, Union, US History, US politics.

Happy Fourth of July everyone, a day when we celebrate the signing of the Declaration of Independence because, yes, it’s our founding document. (The 1789 Constitution was the second take… Read more »

Maine lags rest of New England in pandemic data reporting

Posted April 15th, 2020 & filed under coronavirus, covid19, Donald Trump, Health, Maine, Maine dispatches, New England, Portland Press Herald, transportation, travel advisories.

In yesterday’s Portland Press Herald, I explore why Maine lags the other five New England states in the daily reporting of all sorts of pandemic-related data, including the fact that… Read more »

Colony, the Press Herald Maine Bicentennial series, concludes

Posted March 29th, 2020 & filed under American Indian Affairs, Colony, Lobster Coast, Maine history, Massachusetts, New England, Portland, Portland Press Herald, US History.

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 3: Massachusetts’ conquest of Maine

Posted March 6th, 2020 & filed under American Indian Affairs, Border Issues, Colony, Lobster Coast, Maine, Maine Bicentennial, Maine history, Massachusetts, New England, Portland Press Herald, US History.

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 »

Speaking (a lot) about most everything at Star Island’s Natural History Week, June 20-27

Posted February 9th, 2020 & filed under American Character, American Nations, Lobster Coast, Maine, New England, New Hampshire, Ocean's End, Oceans, Republic of Pirates, speaking, Union, US History.

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be the annual speaker on Star Island, Isles of Shoals, for this year’s Natural History Week, held June 20 to 27. [Update, 5/4/2020: Star… Read more »

Kelp, “forests of the sea,” vanishing from parts of warming Gulf of Maine

Posted November 18th, 2019 & filed under climate change, environment, Maine, Maine dispatches, Mayday, New England, Oceans, Portland Press Herald.

Kelp, a foundation species with a role not unlike that of corals in tropical seas, is vanishing from the coasts of New Hampshire and southern Maine due to the rapid… Read more »

Warming of Gulf of Maine choking right whale food supply

Posted May 15th, 2019 & filed under Atlantic Canada, climate change, environment, Maine, Mayday, New England, Oceans, science stories.

In recent years, the endangered North Atlantic right whale has effectively abandoned summer feeding grounds in the eastern Gulf of Maine, showing up instead in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence,… 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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