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 »
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 »
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 »
How Europeans look at the U.S, post midterms
With authoritarianism on the rise — and Russia attacking its neighbors to the East — Europeans rightly wonder if they can still count on the U.S. to remain their primary… Read more »
In Maine, Republican election deniers are at the top of the ticket
There are few forces more insidious to the survival of a democratic republic than top level political figures making fact-free claims that elections are illegitimate because they didn’t like what… Read more »
Where things stand for Electoral Count Act reform, Maine tribal sovereignty bill
I cover Congress for The Portland Press Herald and have updates on where matters stand with two bills, one with national implications and spearheaded by Maine’s U.S. Senators, the other… Read more »
Could a serial killer have murdered Sarah Cherry?
It was one of the most horrific murders in Maine history and one of the most controversial murder cases. A 12-year old girl abducted and brutally murdered in a rural… Read more »
With union in trouble, governors gathering in Maine
With the U.S. feeling like the 1850s, the nation’s governors are gathering here in Maine tomorrow for the National Governors Association summer meeting. But they’re not discussing how to deal… Read more »
Experts right, Sen. Collins wrong about Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Roe
Back in 2018, when Justice Kennedy’s retirement opened up the second of what would be three Supreme Court seats for Donald Trump to fill, Sen. Susan Collins announced she would… 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.