- September 18, 2023
- Megan Nally
Highlights from From The Vault: Global Transit
Check out these highlights from last week’s edition of From The Vault: Global Transit
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- September 15, 2023
- Deland Chan
Putting Chinatown on the Map: Resisting Displacement through Infrastructural Advocacy
How San Francisco's Chinatown community used infrastructure as a conduit for identity, empowerment, and resilience
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- September 13, 2023
- Zoe Colimon
Pride and Progress: A Journey Through Boston’s LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces
Through a network of safe spaces, the LGBTQ+ community of twentieth-century Boston forged connections and navigated adversity together. Exploring the timeline of these places and spaces reveals how a true sense of community can facilitate progress against all odds.
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- September 11, 2023
- Salman Uddin
Town and Gown: How Communities Resisted Institutional Expansion in Boston
Though not the sole reason, college expansion in Boston has heavily contributed to the increasing cost of living and decreasing amount of space in neighborhoods. It may feel impossible to prevent, but it is amazing what a loud, vocal, and persistent community is capable of.
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- September 1, 2023
- LMEC Staff
Three New Atlascope Tours
Three new Atlascope tours explore pockets of Boston history from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and their ongoing legacies today
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- August 24, 2023
- Nathan Braccio
John Winthrop's "City on a Hill," Mapped
Providing a glimpse into how Winthrop’s "City on a Hill" interfaced with everyday life of Indigenous peoples in colonial New England
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- August 21, 2023
- Megan Nally
Highlights from From The Vault: New Acquisitions
Check out these highlights from last week’s edition of From The Vault: New Acquisitions
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- August 14, 2023
- LMEC Staff
Highlights from From The Vault with Ben Cosgrove: Maps & Music
Check out these highlights from last week’s edition of From The Vault with Ben Cosgrove
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- August 7, 2023
- Zoe Colimon and Salman Uddin
Highlights from From The Vault: Map Projections
Check out these highlights from last week’s edition of From The Vault: Map Projections
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- August 2, 2023
- Michelle LeBlanc
K-12 Educators Explore Geographies of Boston’s Black Women Activists
Earlier this month, we hosted a group of Boston area K-12 educators for a workshop on the role, impact and geographies of women in Boston’s Black history
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