My American Nations-powered series over at Medium, “Balkanized America,” continues with a second installment on the deep divisions between our regional cultures in the colonial period, Revolutionary era, and early… Read more »
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Speaking on Blackbeard and the pirates, seacoast Georgia, Aug. 17
For those in and near the Georgia seacoast, I’ll be speaking on Blackbeard and the golden age pirates this Thursday, August 17, at the Coastal Georgia Historical Society on St…. 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 »
“Balkanized America” – a series at Medium
Medium, the blog hosting site created by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, is developing a members only section, and invited me to create a series of articles there built around the… Read more »
CNN Interview now online
A quick housekeeping note: Last month I was a guest on a CNN special, Bill Weir’s States of Change, talking about American Nations. That appearance is now available to watch… Read more »
Talking American Nations with CNN’s Bill Weir (for real this time)
It was delayed by a week on account of the London Bridge attacks, but Bill Weir’s CNN special “States of Change” premiered Saturday night on CNN and CNN International, including… Read more »
Talking American Nations on CNN
I’m pleased to be one of the guests on a CNN special airing this Saturday, June 3 at 9 pm Eastern, where I’ll be talking about the regional cultures outlined… Read more »
Bill Cohen on Watergate and today
In this week’s Maine Sunday Telegram, I talk to former US Senator and Secretary of Defense William Cohen and several of his former aides about what it was like to… Read more »
Talking pirates with CNN Travel
Earlier this week, I spoke with CNN Travel’s London based writer Chris Scott about Henry Avery and the golden age Bahamian pirates, the subject of my third book, The Republic… 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.