Just as my son’s first grade class was embarking on a unit on Japan a couple weeks ago, what should arrive at our front door but a package from Tokyo… Read more »
Article Topic: World History
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 »
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 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.