World Wide Woodard

The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard.

Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Where to find signed books in coastal Maine, March 31 edition

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More than a year into the pandemic I was realizing that I haven't set foot south of Portsmouth, New Hampshire since February 2020, despi...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

What's up with Jared Golden, the most successful Democrat in Trumpland?

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Maine's second district U.S. Representative, Jared Golden, has been causing a lot of heartburn among fellow Democrats of late. He was th...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Telling the pirates' story on Netflix's "Lost Pirate Kingdom"

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Netflix's new historical docudrama story on the Caribbean pirates, " Lost Pirate Kingdom ," came out Tuesday and is already a ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

The Year of Living Distantly

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We're one year into the global pandemic and I, at least, feel my heart rate increase when I think back to those scary days in late March...
Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Speaking on Maine's past, present and future at Maine Historical Society, Mar. 11

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The pandemic messed with Maine's 200th anniversary celebrations last year, but the Maine Historical Society has rebooted their Bicentenn...
Saturday, March 6, 2021

Talking pirates on a forthcoming Netflix series

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A few months before the pandemic struck I travelled to a Manhattan studio to film an hours-long interview with a British production company ...
Monday, March 1, 2021

United States' myth of nationhood is all-important, but it carries a curse

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The United States needs its national myth of shared nationhood more than most countries because it's almost the only thing that has held...
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Colin Woodard
I am an award-winning journalist and author of American Nations, American Character, Union, Ocean's End, The Lobster Coast, and The Republic of Pirates. I'm a contributing editor at Politico and a staffer at the Portland Press Herald, where I won a 2012 George Polk Award for my investigative reporting and was named a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
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