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World Wide Woodard: April 2015
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The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard. Monday, April 27, 2015. What is the Midwest? There's a movement afoot among Midwestern historians to revive the region's identity. Spearheaded by South Dakota's Jon Lauck, author of The Lost Region. It aims to spark an intellectual conversation about the region's identity, history, and culture. Here's Lauck, who is also counsel to Sen. John Thune, talking with the Argus-Leader. They've started a new regional history association. Suggested that if there is ...
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World Wide Woodard: December 2014
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The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard. Monday, December 22, 2014. Gotham is Dutch: my take in The Monocle. For those of you in the United Kingdom, I have an essay in The Monocle. S "Forecast" edition on New York City and how its having been founded by the Dutch has determined so much about the city it has become and will continue to be. It's an idea developed further in American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. Links to this post. You'll find my piece.
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World Wide Woodard: Introducing Left Coast, the magazine
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The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard. Monday, April 20, 2015. Introducing Left Coast, the magazine. Last week saw the launch of a new web-based magazine, Left Coast. Which credits American Nations. As its conceptual inspiration. Here's an excerpt from their About Us page. Wouldn’t it be great if we, like Dash in The Incredibles. Could simply run as fast as we wanted to? Yes it would.". The early articles include a look at how t he hybrid Appalachian/Yankee origins. April 23, 2015 at 3:13 AM.
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World Wide Woodard: Maine: Gov. LePage slams door on cooperation with tribes
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The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard. Thursday, April 23, 2015. Maine: Gov. LePage slams door on cooperation with tribes. In yesterday's Portland Press Herald. I have the news that Maine Gov. Paul LePage has revoked his own 2011 executive order. Directing state agencies and departments to work toward better cooperation and communication with the state's four federally-recognized Indian tribes. Reaction has been one-sidedly negative. Here's Penobscot Chief Kirk Francis in the story:. The latter...
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World Wide Woodard: In the Czech Republic
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The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard. Tuesday, May 19, 2015. In the Czech Republic. I've spent the past few days in the Czech Republic, including Prague, which I first visited during the Velvet Revolution in 1989. It's hard for any visit to measure up to that particular one, given the emotional poignancy of those glorious days when hope and change weren't empty slogans. And, alas, the old city has continued its inevitable transformation into EuroDisney East, complete with Segways. Recorde de m...
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World Wide Woodard: GE is Yankee, Coca-Cola Deep Southern: do regional cultures shape corporate ones?
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The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard. Thursday, April 2, 2015. GE is Yankee, Coca-Cola Deep Southern: do regional cultures shape corporate ones? I enjoy seeing the many applications of the framework set forth in my fourth book, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. From college football conferences. To the governance of the United Methodist Church. Practitioners have availed themselves of the model to better understand the world they operate in.
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World Wide Woodard: College athletic conferences and the American Nations
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The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard. Tuesday, March 20, 2012. College athletic conferences and the American Nations. When West Virginia University announced it was leaving the Big East athletic conference in favor of the Big 12, many asked if it was a cultural "fit". The answer, athletic director Oliver Luck tells the Times West Virginian. Is yes, absolutely, and marshals American Nations. To make his case. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Republic of Pirates Blog.
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World Wide Woodard: Jack DeCoster, Maine's most infamous businessman, gets jail sentence
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The blog of author and journalist Colin Woodard. Thursday, April 16, 2015. Jack DeCoster, Maine's most infamous businessman, gets jail sentence. Austin "Jack" DeCoster, Maine's most infamous businessman, is going to jail. For his egg company's role in a 2010 salmonella outbreak that may have sickened as many as 54,000. For many of those who've followed his sordid career, the biggest question is why it took so long. As I detailed in Tuesday's Portland Press Herald. And, in 2011, in Down East. It almost pa...
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