For Washington Monthly, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard shared the results of the project’s recent analysis of the geography of social capital in the United States. The online piece summarized the results… Read more »
Articles Tagged: Nationhood Lab
Trump’s support is collapsing in every American Nations region
Over at Nationhood Lab, I recently posted a regional analysis of Trump’s approval ratings, based on G. Elliott Morris’s polls and local-level model. It presents a devastating picture for the… Read more »
Sharing Nations Apart with public television’s “Story in the Public Square”
Last week, I was the guest on the nationally syndicated public television series “Story in the Public Square,” which is produced by the Pell Center and Rhode Island’s Ocean State… Read more »
Speaking on the crisis in U.S. democracy and what to do about it at Emmanuel College, Salem Athenaeum
APRIL 19, 2026 BOSTON – Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard shared Nationhood Lab’s work on American divisions and the story that unites the U.S. to audiences at Emmanuel College Boston and… Read more »
Presenting at the WBUR Festival, Boston, Massachusetts, May 29
I’ll be joining a panel on the polarization of America and how it happened at the WBUR Festival, May 29 in Boston. More details to follow, but this link leads… Read more »
Presenting Nations Apart in Bar Harbor, Maine, Sept. 17
I’ll be presenting on Nations Apart and the work of Nationhood Lab at the MDI Biological Lab’s Maren Auditorium in Bar Harbor Sept. 17, as the Acadia Senior College’s annual… Read more »
In Poland, Woodard shares Nationhood Lab’s work with scholars, students, officials and the media
January 20, 2025 WARSAW, POLAND – Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard spent last week in Poland, presenting the project’s work to students, scholars, diplomats and public officials and appearing on… Read more »
Speaking on the crisis in U.S. democracy and how we got here, Boston, Massachusetts, April 10 (invited)
I’ll be delivering Emmanuel College’s 2026 Catherine McLaughlin Hakim Lecture on their Boston campus at noon on April 10th on the deep background as to how the U.S. republic fell… Read more »
For Politico: the historical roots of our (regional) immigration divide
For Politico, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard has written a magazine-length feature about the regional maldistribution of the “Great Wave” immigrants of 1880-1924 and how it’s shaped the world we live in today, including the… Read more »
Speaking on Nations Apart and the crisis in U.S. democracy, Warsaw, Poland, Jan. 16
I’ll be presenting Nations Apart, the work of Nationhood Lab, and the ongoing crisis in the United States at the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center the afternoon of Jan…. 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.