Mapping American Social Movements is directed by Professor James N. Gregory and supported by Digital Humanities grants from the Walter J. Simpson Center for the Humanities, a Washington State Labor Research grant from the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, and the History Department Hanauer Fund, all at the University of Washington.
The IWW History Project and Upton Sinclair's End Poverty in California Campaign and America's Great Migrations are part of the the Mapping American Social Movements project
Please note: this is a work in progress. We add data and visualizations each month and correct errors. And we need help locating data or sources that will enable us to plot the geography of other social movements. Current visualizations are hosted by Tableau Public and Google maps.
Collaboration
This digital project is assembling data and publishing visualizations about dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics during the 20th century, including radical movements, civil rights movements, labor movements, women's movements, and more. The data come from many sources. We develop some from printed and archival sources, but contributions are critical. Scholars are contributing datasets that were previously used in books and articles. We are also repurposing data that have been archived with ICPSR and other venues. Please contact us if you have ideas or data to share.
This project works closely with the Networked Labor project at UCLA directed by Prof. Tobias Higbie.
Other contributors include:
- Tyler Babbie (University of Washington, English)
- Xóchitl Bada (University of Illinois, Chicago, Latin American and Latino Studies)
- Peter Cole (Western Illinois University, History)
- Lauren Coodley (Independent scholar)
- Jonathan A. Fox (University of California, Santa Cruz, Latin American and Latino Studies)
- Jonathan Garlock (Knights of Labor Data Bank)
- Susan Glenn (University of Washington, History)
- Aaron Goings (St. Martins University, History)
- Jane Guskin (City University of New York, Sociology)
- Henry John (Kaatza Station Museum and Archives)
- Love Karlsson(Independent scholar)
- James Lewes (GI Press Project)
- David Marquis (College of William and Mary, History PhD candidate)
- Doug McAdam, (Stanford University, Sociology)
- Steven Parfitt (University of Nottingham, History)
- Jack Ross (Independent scholar)
- Errol Stevens (Independent scholar)
- Randi Storch (SUNY Cortland, History)
- Stephen R. Thornton (independent scholar)
- Devra Weber (University of California, Riverside, History)
- Kenyon Zimmer (University of Texas, Arlington, History)
Archived datasets:
- United States Historical Election Returns, 1824-1968 [Computer File]. ICPSR00001-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999-04-26. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00001.v3
- Dynamics of Collective Action in the U.S, 1960-1995. Stanford University: Susan Olzak, Doug McAdam, John McCarthy, Sarah Soule. http://web.stanford.edu/group/collectiveaction/cgi-bin/drupal/
Research Associates
- Josue Estrada
- Rebecca Flores (2014-2015)
- Arianne Hermida (2015-2017)
- Katie Anastas (2015-2017)
- Amanda Miller (2018-2019)
- Katherine Cavanaugh (2018-2020)
- Emma Hinchliffe (2020-2021)
- Cameron Molyneux (2019-present)
Technology Advisor
Unit Coordinators
- Katie Anastas (Women's movements)
- Josue Estrada (Chicanx/Latinx movements)
- Rebecca Flores (Socialist Party)
- Arianne Hermida (IWW)
- Amanda Miller (New Left and Anti-War movements)
- Cameron Molyneux (CIO unions)
Student contributors:
| Matthew Anderson |
Hannah Dinielli |
An Lau |
Oscar Rosales Castañeda |
| Kevin Baum |
McKenna Donahue |
Jiajun Law |
Danielle Simmons |
| Alyssa Bell |
Taylor Franks |
Cindy Lee |
Cassondra St. Cyr |
| Neil Blaine |
Oliver Groeneveld |
Colin M. Anderson |
Bao Ta |
| Annelise Blanchard |
Samantha Han |
Samantha Mayes |
Zach Thomas |
| Lindsay Boone |
Michael Handley |
Halle McClain |
Victoria Thorpe |
| Nick Bragg |
Mitchell Henderson |
Kenon Morgan |
Austin Upton |
| Rachel Caldwell |
Marina Hodgkin |
Christopher Mulcahey |
Nicholas Wedler |
| Connor Castro |
Oliver Janders |
Devin Mutha |
Zachary Williams |
| Gary Chen |
Jillian Kaufman |
Kiyomi Nunez |
Hannah Wise |
| Alison Cheung |
Matthew Kelleher |
Sentera Orwig |
Jiayi Xu |
| Justan Cook |
Monica Keosombath |
Sara Parolin |
Steven Yong |
| Morgan Cottle |
Sungjoon Kim |
Paige Peacock |
Jingyan Zhang |
| Alyssa Crawford |
Michael Kirkman |
Chris Perry |
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| Shaun Cuffin |
James Larrabee |
Anne Peterson |
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| Mike DiBernardo |
Brittany Lasher |
Elliott Ricklefs |
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Related Projects
Three free-standing websites are part of the Mapping American Social Movements project:
Mapping American Social Movements joins the Labor and Civil Rights Consortium Projects based at the University of Washington under the direction of Professor James Gregory.
News and blog articles about the Project
Remembering and Mapping the Knights of Labor, by James Gregory and Jonathan Garlock, LaborOnline (October 4, 2019)
Mapping American Social Movements online, radio interview with James Gregory, Union City Radio Labor Day Special, WPFW 89.3 (Washington DC), September 2, 2019
Mapping American Social Movements through the 20th Century, Portside (September 27, 2017)
When Socialists Won Elections (and Where), by James Gregory, LaborOnline, May 5, 2016; republished History News Network, May 5, 2016
Maps Track the Spread of US Social Movements, by Peter Kelley, Futurity (December 16, 2015)
History Meets Geography: James Gregory's Collaborative Digital Project Tracks Key 20th Century Social Movements, by Peter Kelley, UW today (December 15, 2015)
Mapping the IWW, by James Gregory, LaborOnline (November 7, 2015)
Mapping American Radicalism with Historian James Gregory (Video), by Jonathan Hiskes, Simpson Center for Humanities website (July 31, 2015)
"UW professor and undergraduates research radical labor union"
by Katie Anastas, The Daily (May 21, 2015)
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moves@u.washington.edu
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History Department
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Banner image: Richard Correll, Vineyard March, courtesy Leslie Correll and University of Washington Libraries Special Collections, Richard V. Correll Prints and Papers.
