- Jan 13, 2021
- Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson
Confronting the content of collections
Content warning This post contains offensive imagery involving a racist caricature. Last fall, we …
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- Jan 4, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Roaring Twenties Countdown
Last week, to observe the end of 2020, we published maps of the 20s on our social media—that is, one …
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- Dec 30, 2020
- Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson
Stretching the world at the end of a war
One goal of our current exhibition, Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception is to …
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- Dec 23, 2020
- Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson
Six news stories from 2020, seen through Atlascope
It’s been a challenge marking time in the year 2020: last January feels like a million years …
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- Dec 21, 2020
- Garrett Dash Nelson and Belle Lipton
Introducing our Public Data project
Our world is awash in data. The widespread availability of computers and Internet access has made it …
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- Nov 24, 2020
- Lauren Chen
What a relief
What’s up? This map for “elevation” in the #30DayMapChallenge! Previous …
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- Nov 23, 2020
- Garrett Dash Nelson
A sylvan boundary
Today’s entry in the #30DayMapChallenge is “boundary,” and we certainly live in a …
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- Nov 19, 2020
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Parts unknown—or willful ignorance
An excerpt from Ramusio’s 1565 map of New France, showing the ‘unknown part.’ Is …
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- Nov 2, 2020
- Lauren Chen
Sundial maps
Have you ever wondered why map projections are called “projections?” In gnomonic …
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- Oct 31, 2020
- Rachel Mead
A Candy Tour of Boston
This article is also cross-posted on the BPL Blog. There were many candy factories in Greater Boston …
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