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Writing in Maine’s largest newspaper, the Pell Center’s Colin Woodard makes the case for a rebooted U.S. national narrative to pull the country back from the brink Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard argued that the U.S. is standing perilously close to a collapse into autocracy in an essay in a recent Sunday edition of Maine’s largest newspaper, the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram. Devising a rebooted national story of what the purpose of the...
In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard discusses how core value archetypes are maldistributed across U.S. regional cultures At Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard shared the results of new research showing the underlying value sets and moral foundations of Americans are distributed differently across U.S. regional cultures. The online piece described the new research published Nov. 16 that looked at how the civic research group More in Common’s widely used Hidden Tribes are distributed in each of...
This summer Nationhood Lab has been focused on regional health disparities and earlier this month the project published a large data journalism package showing wide gaps in life expectancy between U.S. regions. On Sept. 1, Politico published a magazine length story on the findings by project director Colin Woodard, which became the most read story on the site the following afternoon.
In Smithsonian Magazine, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard shares the backstory of one of the United States's misguided national origin stories. Frederick Jackson Turner's massively influential and deeply flawed Frontier Thesis, which dominated the teaching and public understanding of American history for half a century after it was first presented at the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, was a cul-de-sac of nationhood building
