Earlier this summer, over at Nationhood Lab, we extended our data models to enable researchers to apply the American Nations model in Canada, This also let us create, for the... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
On July 4, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard discussed the project’s groundbreaking work on a shared American story on “Story in the Public Square,” the award-winning public affairs television series broadcast... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
I’ll be speaking on South Carolinian intellectuals and their role in the struggle to forge the story of United States nationhood, at, appropriately enough, the University of South Carolina, on... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
For Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard wrote about Nationhood Lab’s recent work on the regional geography of opportunity and economic distress. The piece was also published at Real Clear Policy.... Read more » The post On the regional geography of opportunity and the American Nations appeared first on Colin Woodard - Author.| Colin Woodard – Author
In a new essay published by the American Enterprise Institute’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard shared the Pell Center project’s findings on a shared national... Read more » The post Presenting a rebooted US national narrative to AEI appeared first on Colin Woodard - Author.| Colin Woodard – Author
Nationhood Lab’s director presented the project’s findings on a shared American story in an invited guest essay for The Next Move, democracy advocate and former World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov’s widely read substack... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
In addition to its data journalism and national narrative work, Nationhood Lab engages in peer-reviewed academic research, collaborating on twenty-five papers published over as many months. While the project has worked with political... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard recently joined New America fellow Ted Johnson on Maine Public radio’s statewide public affairs interview and call-in show, Maine Calling, to discuss the implications of... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
In an opinion essay in this Sunday’s edition of Maine’s largest newspaper, the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram, the Pell Center’s Colin Woodard shared the results of Nationhood... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard discussed the project’s new report on a rebooted national narrative for the United States with American Public Media’s David Brancaccio on Marketplace Morning Report, the... Read more » The post Speaking with public radio’s Marketplace Morning Report about the U.S. national story appeared first on Colin Woodard - Author.| Colin Woodard – Author
Over at Nationhood Lab, I wrote about the regional divides in household creditworthiness, debt, and delinquency and the correlations with lack of medical care, using the regional cultures described in... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
NEWPORT, R.I. (July 9) – A series of newly published studies reveal significant differences between U.S. regions in various measures of health and healthy lifestyles, life expectancy, and COVID-19 infection, vaccination... Read more »| Colin Woodard - Author
“Woodard’s treatise is a must-read for anyone grappling with how we arrived at the present moment . . . Although the prose is effortlessly accessible to a general audience, the manuscript could easily serve as a textbook in a number of different disciplines: history, economics, political science and psychology, just to name a few.”| Colin Woodard - Author
Union tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, a small group of individuals—historians, political leaders, and novelists—fashioned and promoted the idea of America as nation that had a God-given mission to lead humanity toward freedom, equality, and self-government. But this emerging narrative was swiftly contested by another set of intellectuals ...| Colin Woodard - Author
