Have been a @ColinWoodard fan since his 2011 book "American Nations," and his prescient reporting outing profiteering charter schools in Maine.

What a nice surprise to have him and Yascha Mounk talking about our regional history and politics in my inbox this morning.

The one question I have for #ColinWoodard is: Given the Graeber/Wendrow work, "The Dawn of Everything," we can have some inkling of our rich and varied indigenous history. Has anyone looked at how those cultural/political maps line up with the colonial systems that eventually won the day?

https://www.persuasion.community/p/woodard#details

Here's a weird rabbit hole. This piece by #ColinWoodard very obviously expands on David Hackett Fischer's seminal 1989 book #Albion'sSeed. But Woodard doesn't mention Fischer anywhere in the article, instead citing a1992 article by #RichardNesbitt, which *also* doesn't cite Fischer.

Woodard's book on Amazon doesn't have a bibliography, but neither Fischer nor Albion's Seed are in the index.

That kind of omission would get you a failing grade on a seminar paper.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-surprising-geography-of-gun-violence/ar-AA1adq3s?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=04846a7f0dcf4a32d30a2a00df84c80a&ei=9

This looks like a stunning long read! I love that the Press Herald bundled it up into an e-book as well. I wish more newspapers did this sort of aggregate publishing. 

https://boffosocko.com/2020/01/22/unsettled-press-herald-colin-woodard/

#Journalism #abuseofpower #ColinWoodard #equity #governmentoverreach #indigenouspeoples #justice #longreads #Unsettled