The indefatigable team at CSPAN’s City Tour came to Portland, Maine this summer and the segments they produced are airing this weekend, spotlighting our little city.
I was pleased to record two separate interviews with them, one on Lobster Coast and the historical and cultural background to Maine’s lobster fishery, the other on American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (from Portland Head Light.)
Here’s the broadcast schedule for those. I’ll post links to each segment as they come available.
Lobster Coast on “Book-TV in Portland, Maine”, CSPAN-2, Saturday, October 21 during the 1203 pm Eastern broadcast.
American Character on “Book-TV,” CSPAN-3, Sunday, October 22 at 0632 am Eastern
Lobster Coast on “American History,” CSPAN-3, Sunday, October 22 during the 2pm Eastern broadcast on Portland, Maine. (For night owls, it repeats Monday, October 23 at 0400 Eastern.)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?435268-1/lobster-coast
[Update, 11/10/17: Both segments air tonight on CSPAN-1 in a special Portland, Maine program starting at 7:06pm.]
https://www.c-span.org/video/?435268-1/lobster-coast
[Update, 11/10/17: Both segments air tonight on CSPAN-1 in a special Portland, Maine program starting at 7:06pm.]
If you’re interested in American Nations, my full talk at Iowa State was carried on CSPAN-1 a couple of years back and is available here.
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.