- Oct 1, 2021
- Rachel Sharer
A Refuge from the Roar: Yosemite National Park
Examining the history and future of America's third national park on the anniversary of its founding
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- Sep 19, 2021
- Michelle LeBlanc
“X” Marks the Spot: Searching for Pirate Treasure on Cape Cod
For international “Talk like a Pirate Day,” we use maps in our collection to examine the story of Captain Southack and his mandate to recover the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717.
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- Sep 17, 2021
- Elizabeth Borneman, Lily Xie, and Hua Xi
"We Never Wanted Him Here"
A brief history of protests, takedowns and counter-proposals to the commemoration of Christopher Columbus in the United States
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- Aug 31, 2021
- Emily Bowe and Garrett Dash Nelson
An interview with Emily Bowe
Welcome to the newest member of the LMEC team!
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- Aug 30, 2021
- Courtney Humphries
Negotiating the shoreline
An interactive tour of one of the most important maps in the history of Boston Harbor's environmental management
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- Aug 20, 2021
- Nyssa Patten
Unlearning and Relearning the Colonization of New England
A participant in our summer NEH workshop for teachers discusses the new ways she looks at maps, the erasure of Native people, and how she’ll be teaching this fall.
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- Aug 16, 2021
- Rachel Sharer
The Great Klondike Gold Rush
Although it only lasted three years, the Klondike gold rush had profound and lasting effects on land, economic development, and native communities.
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- Aug 6, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
A map-less map of political geography in the US
Looking at red and blue America in a chart can sometimes be more helpful than seeing it on a conventional geographic map
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- Jul 30, 2021
- Richard Pegg
Zhuang Tingfu: Cartographic Encounters and Echoes
In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge
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- Jul 8, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Mapping July Through History
Let's take a closer look at some July maps from years past
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