Articles

March 10, 2023
Joshua Aldwinckle-Povey, Nick Duffy, Vy Phan, Aditi Shankar

An Interview with the Spring 2023 Interns

Meet the team of wonderful student interns who have been hard at work this semester on various LMEC projects

March 4, 2023
Amy Finstein, Emily Marino, Owen Kenney, Kathleen McCarthy, Julia Clarke, and Maggie Hartnett

New Stories From Before Displacement: An Urban History

Undergraduates at the College of the Holy Cross used Atlascope to research the buildings and landscapes of Boston that were destroyed by the Central Artery

February 24, 2023
LMEC Staff

Black Boston Stories: Meet Florida Ruffin Ridley

Meet Florida Ruffin Ridley, an important Black Bostonian who worked, studied, played, and created within the landscapes on display in our featured exhibition, Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases.

February 17, 2023
Michelle LeBlanc and Sharon Hessney

“What’s Going On in This Graph?”: The Power of Noticing and Wondering

An interview with Sharon Hessney

February 3, 2023
LMEC Staff

Spotlighting the work of our teen curators

For our new rotating exhibition, Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases, the Leventhal Center hired and worked with three high school students from Boston Public Schools as teen curators.

January 27, 2023
Patricio Pino

An Interview with Patricio Pino

An interview with Spring 2023 Northeastern co-op, Patricio Pino

January 18, 2023
Laura Lee Schmidt

A Curatorial Commentary on Building Blocks: Boston Stories from Urban Atlases

Exhibition Curatorial Fellow Laura Lee Schmidt dives into our ongoing Building Blocks exhibition

January 11, 2023
Richard Pegg

Korean Yeojido Atlases

How did Korean cartography evolve in the Joseon period? Explore this interactive Map Chat from the MacLean Collection to learn more about a fascinating collection of atlases.