Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1983.
Selected Bibliography
The Southern Diaspora: How The Great Migrations of Black and White
Southerners Transformed America (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2005)
Winner of the 2006 Philip Taft Labor History Book Prize
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/diaspora
Upton Sinclair. I, Candidate for Governor, and How I Got Licked.
Introduction by James N. Gregory (Berkeley: University of California Press,
1994)
American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California
. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989) Winner of the 1991 Ray Allen
Billington Prize from the Organization of American Historians; winner
of the 1990 Annual Book Award from the Pacific Coast Branch of the American
Historical Association
http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/exodus
“The Second Great Migration: An Historical Overview,” African American Urban History: The Dynamics of Race, Class and Gender since World War II, eds. Joe W. Trotter Jr. and Kenneth L. Kusmer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming)
“Teaching a City about its Civil Rights History: A Public History Success Story” American Historical Association Perspectives (April 2007)-with Trevor Griffey
"The Southern Diaspora: 20th Century America’s Great Migration/s,
” in Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions
in Modern Continental Migration and Citizenship , ed. Marc S. Rodriguez
(Rochester: University of Rochester, 2004), 57-90
"The West and the Workers, 1 870-1930"in A Companion to
the American West, ed. William Deverell (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing,
2004), 240-55
"The Dust Bowl Migration," in Poverty in the United States:
An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy, eds. Gwendolyn Mink
and Alice O'Connor (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 2004)
"Upton Sinclair," California Journal 30:11(November
1999), 45-46
"The Great Depression" in National Geographic Society, National
Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century (Washington DC: The National
Geographic Society, 1998), 122-131
"Southernizing the American Working Class: Post War Episodes of
Regional and Class Transformation," Labor History 39 (May
1998). A Labor History Forum article with comments by Thomas Sugrue, Grace
Elizabeth Hale, and Alex Lichtenstein, and response by author.
"Slouching Through the Great Depression: Kevin Starr and the California
Dream Series." Reviews in American History (June 1997): 306-311
"The Shaping of California History" in Major Problems in
California History, Sucheng Chan and Spencer C. Olin, editors (Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997) 15-27
"The Southern Diaspora and the Urban Dispossessed: Demonstrating
the Census Public Use Microdata Samples." Journal of American
History 82 (June 1995)
"Okies and the Politics of Plain-Folk Americanism" in Working
People of California, Daniel Cornford, ed. (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1995) 116-158
Research in Progress
The Twilight of American Socialism: Upton Sinclair, the EPIC Movement,
and the Twilight of American Socialism.
Public History
Pacific Northwest Labor History Projects
(a collection of website projects directed by James Gregory and sponsored
by the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies).
http://debts.washington.edu/gregoryj/labhist/
Projects are listed separately below
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
This website project explores the history of civil rights organizing in Seattle and western Washington State involving many communities of color and some elements of the labor movement. The project features video interviews with more than 80 civil rights activists.
Seattle General Strike Project
A website exploring the history of the 1919 Seattle General Strike, featuring
essays, documents, and photographs.
The Labor Press Project
A website exploring the history and current role of Labor and Radical
newspapers in the Pacific Northwest.
Communism in Washington State—History and Memory Project
A website examining the history of Communist Party in Washington State,
featuring essays, video interviews, photographs and cartoons.
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