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 »
Articles Tagged: Maine
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 the U.S. democratic crisis in Brunswick, Maine, June 5
For the home county crowd: I’ll be speaking on the crisis facing U.S. democracy, how we got here, why we’re vulnerable and what we can do about it, at the… 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 »
Speaking on the U.S. media and the authoritarian threat, Waterville, Maine, April 23
I will be giving a talk entitled “Election 2024: Is the U.S. media up to the task of covering domestic authoritarianism?” at Colby College’s Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs on… 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 »
Speaking on How to Hold the U.S. together; Stonington, Maine, Aug. 28
I’ll be speaking on Deer Isle as part of the Stonington Public Library’s Seaside Series from 12 to 1 pm August 28th. The outdoor event is held in Seaside Park… Read more »
Newsroom Live: Can America Stay Together?, 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 »
Speaking on the United States’s democratic crisis, Brunswick, Maine, June 5
For the home county crowd: I’ll be speaking on the crisis facing U.S. democracy, how we got here, why we’re vulnerable and what we can do about it, at the… 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.