Articles Tagged: New England

Speaking on Maine’s historical odyssey; South Portland, Maine, Sept. 28

Posted September 25th, 2022 & filed under Colony, Lobster Coast, Maine, Maine Bicentennial, Maine history, Massachusetts, Media, Portland, speaking, US History.

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 »

A U.S. breakup would be a disaster, but if it happens expect an independent New England

Posted August 19th, 2022 & filed under American Nations, Boston Globe, Massachusetts, Media, nationalism, Nationhood Lab, New England, OpEd, Union, US History, US politics.

Back when American Nations came out in 2011, a lot of august experts dismissed the warning in the epilogue that if we were unable to form better compromises between the… Read more »

Quebec to New England transmission project could be delayed by rival

Posted July 28th, 2021 & filed under Canada, climate change, energy, environment, forests, Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Portland Press Herald, Quebec.

Here in Maine one of the most controversial public policy issues of recent years has been over a project to connect the massive hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec with the… Read more »

Union talk – Exeter, New Hampshire

Posted July 14th, 2021 & filed under .

I’ll be speaking about my most recent book, Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood, at the Exeter Public Library in Exeter, New Hampshire. Books available for… 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.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

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