My cultural history of coastal Maine, The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, turned 21 this year and, to celebrate it being of drinking age,… Read more »
Articles Tagged: Lobster Coast
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 »
Lobster Coast’s updated 20th anniversary edition
To my amazement my second book, The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, turns 20 this summer. For this occasion Viking let me add a… Read more »
Book signing in Freeport, Maine, June 29
My book about the history and identity of coastal Maine, The Lobster Coast, turns twenty this summer and to celebrate Viking has released a new edition (same ISBN!) with a… Read more »
Book signing in Portland, Maine, June 29
My book about the history and identity of coastal Maine, The Lobster Coast, turns twenty this summer and to celebrate Viking has released a new edition (same ISBN!) with a… Read more »
Speaking on Maine’s identity and Lobster Coast at 20, Wells, Maine, August 13
The Lobster Coast, my book on coastal Maine’s history and identity, turns twenty at the end of this summer. To mark the occasion — and update the narrative — Viking… Read more »
Lobster Coast named a “New Maine Classic” by Down East Magazine
In their latest issue, the editors of Down East Magazine compiled a list of “New Maine Classics,” 25 films, plays, books, digital projects, and animated shorts from the past 25… Read more »
Speaking on Maine’s historical odyssey; South Portland, Maine, Sept. 28
On September 28 at 6:30pm, I’ll be in South Portland talking about the backstory of Maine on the occasion of its Bicentennial: a harrowing and little understood saga of war… Read more »
Speaking on Maine’s historical odyssey, South Portland, Maine, Sept. 28
I’ll be speaking about the past, present and future of coastal Maine in South Portland on Wednesday, September 28th. This a twice-rescheduled talk originally intended to have been delivered during… Read more »
Speaking on Lobster Coast in Greater Portland, Maine, Sept. 19 (Private)
I’m speaking in a private event on the Lobster Coast and the history of coastal Maine starting at 3:30. It’s part of a community book read.
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.