In Smithsonian Magazine, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard shares the backstory of one of the United States’s misguided national origin stories. Frederick Jackson Turner’s massively influential and deeply flawed Frontier Thesis, which dominated the teaching and public understanding of American history for half a century after it was first presented at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893, was a cul-de-sac of nationhood building| Nationhood Lab
The United States is regions apart when it comes to attitudes about immigration, immigrants and immigration policies. The geography of immigration has shifted substantially since 1900, with political effects visible on the ground.| Nationhood Lab
An initiative of the Pell Center at Salve Regina University| Nationhood Lab