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 »
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Nationhood Lab research finds most Americans share a common vision for the United States
The broadly accepted narrative is rooted in the civic ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence Washington, D.C. – March 12, 2025 – Nationhood Lab has released the findings of a groundbreaking… Read more »
Immigration and the American Nations
Over at Nationhood Lab I’ve published a detailed study of the regional geography of immigration and immigration opinion. Using the American Nations model it demonstrates how unevenly foreign immigration has… Read more »
The American Nations, health lifestyles, COVID-19 and life expectancy
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 »
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… Read more »
Nationhood Lab poll: Most Americans define the U.S. by adherence to ideals rather than heritage, ancestry, or traditions
April 23, 2024 NEWPORT, R.I. – Americans prefer to define their country by its commitment to civic ideals rather than by shared ancestry, history, traditions or culture by wide margins,… Read more »
Voter turnout and health outcomes are interrelated and vary by region, according to latest research from Nationhood Lab collaboration
April 3, 2023 NEWPORT, RI – Voter participation and health outcomes in the United States are interrelated, according to a new academic paper in the journal The Lancet Regional Health… Read more »
Warning of threats to U.S. Democracy at Jan. 6 vigil in Newport, R.I.
January 13, 2023 NEWPORT, R.I. – The director of Salve Regina University’s Nationhood Lab delivered keynote remarks at a vigil commemorating the Jan. 6 coup attempt in which he warned… Read more »
The Ohio abortion amendment and the American Nations
Over at Nationhood Lab, the research project and data journalism portal I lead at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center, we were curious how the three American Nations sections of Ohio… Read more »
Arguing for a renewed national story to assure U.S. survival for AEI’s Social Breakdown series
November 2, 2023 NEWPORT, R.I — In a new essay published in the American Enterprise Institute’s The Social Breakdown series, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard argues that the United… Read more »
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.