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Colin Woodard·
In the News
·January 3, 2025·2 min read

Die Welt interviews Woodard on 2024 election and the crisis for U.S. democracy

Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard talked at length with the U.S. correspondent of one of Germany's newspapers of record about the election results and the crisis Trumpism represents to American democracy
Colin Woodard·
Updates
·May 8, 2026·1 min read

Nationhood Lab director shares backstory of America’s 250th at Salve Regina and the American Independence Center

NEWPORT, R.I. -- Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard argued that Americans need to stand up for the Declaration of Independence's vision for the United States as the country faces a resurgence in "blood and soil" ethnonational authoritarianism at events across New England to mark the document's 250th birthday.
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·July 23, 2023·1 min read

Die Welt: Nationhood Lab director on the challenges to U.S. nationhood

Colin Woodard·
FeaturedUpdates
·November 20, 2025·2 min read

Nationhood Lab director shares project’s work at New America, Salve, Politics & Prose and beyond

November 21, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. –  The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab is on tour promoting Nations Apart: How...
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·November 5, 2025·1 min read

NY Times OpEd: America isn’t a blood-and-soil nation

In the New York Times, Nationhood Lab's director counters Vice President J.D. Vance's argument that being American is about having the right ancestry, rather than fealty to the ideals in the Declaration of Independence
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·March 11, 2026·2 min read

Is the U.S. a nation-state? How does it hold together? Discussing national identity with the CSCE’s Transatlantic podcast

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
·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·
FeaturedUpdates
·January 23, 2026·2 min read

In Poland, Woodard shares Nationhood Lab’s work with scholars, students, officials and the media

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

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
·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·
FeaturedUpdates
·March 12, 2025·4 min read

Nationhood Lab research finds most Americans share a common vision for the United States

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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
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    • Updates
  • ABOUT US
    • The Project
    • Project Director
    • Advisory Council
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