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National Narrative

Colin Woodard·
In the News
·April 11, 2025·1 min read

Nationhood Lab’s rebooted story of America featured on public radio’s Marketplace Morning Report

Host David Brancaccio spoke with Project director Colin Woodard about the Pell Center project's findings about a widely shared story of national purpose and belonging
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedUpdates
·October 29, 2025·2 min read

Nations Apart — the book showcasing Nationhood Lab — goes on tour

Project Director Colin Woodard's new book goes on sale November 4 from Viking Press / Random House. He's doing a dozen events in six states and the District of Columbia.
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·
In the News
·April 7, 2025·1 min read

OpEd: Yes, there is still a shared American national story

Writing in Maine's largest newspaper, project director Colin Woodard shares the findings of Nationhood Lab's work on a rebooted U.S. national narrative
Colin Woodard·
In the News
·May 14, 2025·1 min read

Presenting the rebooted national story on Garry Kasparov’s The Next Move substack

The democracy advocate and former chess grandmaster praised Nationhood Lab's work in an introduction to project director Colin Woodard's guest essay
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·July 15, 2025·1 min read

Sharing our rebooted national story — and why we need one — on PBS’s “Story in the Public Square”

Colin Woodard·
Data JournalismFeatured
·September 17, 2024·6 min read

Survey results: Americans overwhelmingly oppose election subversion, book bans, but split on partisan lines over voter suppression and presidents being above law

Most Americans say they support the liberal democratic values at the core of the American Experiment, but would they actually do so in practice when doing so might not help their “side” obtain or sustain power? The answer, according to our latest surveys, is “yes,” for most Americans, but not necessarily on the American right.
Colin Woodard·
FeaturedIn the News
·June 27, 2025·1 min read

There’s still a shared American story, Woodard argues in an essay for AEI

Nationhood Lab's director shares the project's findings on a rebooted U.S. national narrative for the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility
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?

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
·May 16, 2024·2 min read

Washington Monthly: Can the Declaration of Independence’s Ideals Hold America Together?

At Washington Monthly, director Colin Woodard shared the results of Nationhood Lab's first major poll on U.S. national identity, which showed Americans prefer to define their country by its commitment to civic ideals rather than by shared ancestry, history, traditions or culture by wide margins.
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

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Nationhood Lab
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    • 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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