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Colin Woodard·
In the News
·May 22, 2023·1 min read

AP: Nationhood Lab director discusses how U.S. national myths reinforce the loneliness epidemic

Colin Woodard spoke with the Associated Press's Global Director for New Storytelling, Ted Anthony, about the historical and national narrative influences behind the loneliness crisis recently identified by the U.S. Surgeon General
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·June 4, 2024·1 min read

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

In Talking Points Memo, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard writes about the project’s latest study, the deep backstory on the differences in abortion opinion and policy between U.S. regions
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·January 30, 2023·1 min read

How America’s Frontier myth got its start and quickly lost the faith of its own author

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
·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·
FeaturedIn the News
·July 31, 2023·1 min read

Nationhood Lab director discusses the authoritarian crisis and the problems of U.S. nationhood with Yascha Mounk on The Good Fight podcast

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·
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
·October 5, 2023·1 min read

The early 20th century Appalachian migration to Great Lakes cities created big tensions, but did it help bring down the New Deal coalition?

Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·April 6, 2023·1 min read

U.S. nationhood was created nearly from scratch in the 19th century. Was Daniel Webster responsible?

In Washington Monthly's spring issue, Nationhood Lab's director writes on the creation of the U.S. national narrative in a review of Joel Richard Paul's Indivisible.
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·November 2, 2023·2 min read

U.S. survival depends on a renewed national story, Woodard argues in a new essay for AEI’s Social Breakdown series

A rebooted, 21st century version of our civic national narrative is the vital glue that can hold the republic and federation together, Woodard argues in a piece for the American Enterprise Institute's Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·November 26, 2023·1 min read

Washington Monthly: How More in Common’s Hidden Tribes are distributed via America’s regional cultures

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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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