- August 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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- August 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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- August 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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- August 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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- August 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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- July 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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- July 8, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Mapping July through history
Let’s take a closer look at some July maps from years past
Read more- June 29, 2021
- Rachel Mead
The geography of an incomplete freedom
July 4th is a day we celebrate “freedom” in the US. Whose freedom are we celebrating? How has that changed over more than two centuries?
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- June 23, 2021
- Rachel Mead
Pride Month at LMEC
Taking a look at the rainbows of our collection
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- June 22, 2021
- Alexandra Montgomery and Garrett Dash Nelson
An interview with Alexandra Montgomery
Our new postdoctoral fellow joins the ARGO team and tells us a bit about how maps have shaped her perspective as a historian
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