Donald Trump and his allies are marking the 250th birthday of the Declaration of Independence by attacking what it stands for, Nationhood Lab Director Colin Woodard wrote in an opinion… Read more »
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NY Times OpEd: America isn’t a blood-and-soil nation
In the New York Times opinion section, Nationhood Lab director Colin Woodard argued America has a widely shared national story, and it’s based on the ideals in the Declaration, not… Read more »
Presenting a rebooted US national narrative to AEI
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 »
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.