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Colin Woodard·
In the News
·February 13, 2026·1 min read

In Smithsonian: when NYC tried to become its own country

On the brink of the Civil War, New York City's mayor led a movement to secede from the New England-settled Upstate to become its own country
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·February 11, 2026·1 min read

Woodard speaks with Minnesota Star Tribune about ICE campaign’s collision with Yankee regional cultural norms

Star Tribune staff columnist Jill Burcum sought out the American Nations angle to the Trump administration's deadly and frequently lawless operation in the North Star State.
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·December 30, 2025·2 min read

Iowa Public Radio, Quad Cities NPR feature Nations Apart and Nationhood Lab

Colin Woodard·
In the News
·November 25, 2025·2 min read

Woodard discusses Nationhood Lab’s work on KERA’s syndicated Think program

Nationhood Lab's founder also discussed his new book, Nations Apart, on the Dallas NPR superstation's hour-format interview program, which is carried by public radio stations in 29 states nationwide
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·November 12, 2025·2 min read

Woodard discusses Nationhood Lab’s work with Maine Public and Utah Public Radio

Nationhood Lab’s director was the guest on the statewide networks’ respective hour-long live public affairs interview and call-in shows.
Colin Woodard·
Updates
·December 16, 2024·2 min read

Woodard addresses international fellows at National Defense University on problems of U.S. democracy and nationhood

Colin Woodard·
In the News
·October 12, 2024·1 min read

La Presse interviews Woodard on American Nations and U.S. politics

Nationhood Lab’s director sat down with the U.S. correspondent of Quebec’s newspaper of record about the political implications of the...
Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·June 28, 2024·3 min read

The American Nations and the States: Change over time

We previously parsed 2020 census data to reveal present day state-level power dynamics. Now we've done the same for 1900 and 1950, revealing remarkable stability in most states, and dramatic shifts in others.
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·June 4, 2024·1 min read

For TPM: on the geography of U.S. abortion opinion

Colin Woodard·
In the News
·April 18, 2024·2 min read

How best to understand America’s competing national myths?

In Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard reviews a new book from an eminent scholar of the American mythos doesn’t quite hit the mark
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·December 26, 2023·1 min read

OpEd: Nationhood Lab director on the autocratic threat to the U.S. and the need for a new national story

Writing in Maine’s largest newspaper, the Pell Center’s Colin Woodard makes the case for a rebooted U.S. national narrative to...
Colin Woodard·
Updates
·December 10, 2023·2 min read

Woodard addresses international fellows at National Defense University on problems of U.S. nationhood

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Nationhood Lab
  • THE CHALLENGE
    • An Authoritarian Threat
    • A Balkanized Federation
    • A Lost National Narrative
  • OUR WORK
    • Data Journalism
    • A New National Narrative
    • Research and Publications
    • Initiatives
  • NEWS AND UPDATES
    • In the News
    • Updates
  • ABOUT US
    • The Project
    • Project Director
    • Advisory Council
  • CONTACT
  • PELL CENTER
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