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Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy releases second quarterly Vanderbilt Unity Index data measuring Americans’ faith and trust in democracy   Americans’ general faith and trust in democracy has stabilized in the first half of 2022, remaining relatively flat through the second quarter, according to the… Read More

  By Sarah Igo, Andrew Jackson Professor of History at Vanderbilt University    Since the first Social Security numbers were issued in 1936, Americans’ relationship to their unique nine digits has charted shifting attitudes toward the federal government. The federal government has long relied on aggregate as well as individual data… Read More

  Episode 1: Jonathan Martin and John Geer Episode 2: Yuval Levin and Bill Haslam Episode 3: Will Hurd and Bill Haslam Episode 4: Allida Black and Samar Ali Episode 5: Jon Meacham and Keel Hunt The Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy… Read More

As the nation grapples with the continuing tragedy of mass shootings, Vanderbilt University and the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy hosted a live virtual panel discussion, “Facts and Evidence: Navigating the Gun Debate in America,” on Tuesday, June 7, 2022, at noon to discuss the issue of gun… Read More

Vanderbilt students were invited this spring to express how they feel about unity and democracy through a new poetry contest held by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy in partnership with the Department of English and Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing program. The theme was “what unity… Read More