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December 3, 2025
Kate Lautenbach

Dating every building in Boston

Why tax assessments are actually interesting

November 21, 2025
Genna Kane

Making Power, Making Land: The Spatial Legacy of Boston’s Energy Production

The creation of new land and the development of power infrastructure have a shared history along Boston's waterfront—one that still impacts our environment today

November 14, 2025
Nicole Claris

Highlights From The Vault — Gulf of What?

Check out these highlights from the November 14, 2025 From The Vault — Gulf of What?

November 10, 2025
Jan Trachet, Dietlind-Rozekin Craenhals, Alice Walder, Manuel Claeys Boùùaert, and Rein Debrulle

Mapathon 1571: Building Community Cartography Through Collective Georeferencing

How a sixteenth-century map reconnects contemporary audiences with its historical landscape

November 1, 2025
Ian Spangler

Atlascope goes eighteenth century: Introducing Clough's 1798 urban atlas

Take a trip back to 1798 with Samuel Chester Clough's atlas of Boston, now available in Atlascope

October 31, 2025
Julia Williams

Highlights From The Vault — Creepy Cartography

Check out these highlights from the October 31, 2025 From The Vault — Creepy Cartography

October 10, 2025
Kate Lautenbach

Highlights From The Vault — Maps in Disaster

Check out these highlights from the October 10, 2025 From The Vault — Maps in Disaster.

October 2, 2025
Geoffrey Phelippot

Playing and Learning World Geography in the Seventeenth Century

What card games can tell us about the geographical imagination

September 19, 2025
Julia Williams

Highlights From The Vault — Unconventional Views of the World

Check out these highlights from the September 19, 2025 From The Vault — Unconventional World Views.

September 12, 2025
Mimi Cheng

Tracing the Copy

Two maps of Beijing from the MacLean Collection

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