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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 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?

In Washington Monthly‘s September-October issue, Nationhood Lab’s director reviews a compelling new book on this forgotten great migration, Max Fraser's Hillbilly Highway
Colin Woodard·
In 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

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·
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 26, 2023·1 min read

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

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

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·
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

Colin Woodard·
Updates
·December 10, 2023·2 min read

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

December 10, 2023 WASHINGTON –  The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab presented on the problems of U.S. nationhood at...
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·
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

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  • 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
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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