After digitizing and processing eleven years worth of registrations lists, I found that of the around 2000 unique names (out of a total of around 5000), the person with the longest history of participation was the librarian Jane Williamson (none of the names in red below are academics).

This makes for a messy looking dataviz and that is precisely my point.

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Polatnick, also a participant in women’s liberation, wrote specifically to recover the women who had been left out of histories because they “fought” for women’s liberation “in other contexts.”

Using the BYU Corpus Interface for Google Books I scraped the metadata for any references to “Redstockings Manifesto” or “A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women”  to create the visualization below.

The Redstockings Manifesto, a widely circulated articulation of the principles that would become known as radical feminism,  suggested to me, following other work I’ve done on feminist manifestos, to look at the piece attributed to Robinson,  “A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women” as a  manifesto would, I argue, function as one.   If in 1970 the two pieces are of equal influence, at least as measured by inclusion in these anthologies, what happens over time, which after all is what historians are interested in?

f the 435 names, the common network reduces to this.

The modern perception of private correspondence was one that simply did not exist in the early modern period. instead, epistolary conventions implicated multiple parties in the composition, transmission, and reception of letters.

Carolee Schneemann’s correspondence, once explored for its content rather than for connections between authors, pointed to female circles around “proto-feminist” art movements in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as well the US feminist artist movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

Analysis of the periodicals indicated that references to manifestos made up a relatively small portion of their overall content and that appearances of the word “manifesto” decreased over time, especially after 1979.46Subsequent analysis was therefore restricted to manifestos included in Deepwell’s anthology that were composed before 1980.

That is, we recognize the institutionalization of public data as it becomes known, read, and put in context, but in comparison, how private data is secured, (almost assuredly) sold to data brokers and possibly eventually leaked is obscured.

View an instance of Ink loaded with Voltaire's correspondence. In combines mapped letters with a timeline stacked bar chart and a relationship viewer.