Mapping Middletown Voices

Mapping Middletown Voices is an initiative focused on spatializing data from oral histories that document historical experience in Muncie, Indiana. Researchers completed most of these interviews in connection with research on Muncie as Middletown, the subject of Robert and Helen Lynd’s pathbreaking investigation of American community life and its many successors. It employs geographic text analysis to extract spatial information from interview transcripts and represent them in a Geographic Information System (GIS). We envision this project as a component of Deep Mapping Middletown, the larger effort to represent Middletown research and local history in two-and three-dimensional spatial form.