Articles

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?

June 23, 2021
Rachel Mead

Pride Month at LMEC

Taking a look at the rainbows of our collection

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

June 19, 2021
LMEC Staff

The Maps of Dumont de Montigny

An exploration of one cartographer’s work mapping French colonial sites in Louisiana

June 18, 2021
Amy Finstein, Paige Epp, Sydney Fisher, Elyse Cote, Renata Palau, and Kristen Weber

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

June 17, 2021
Lynn Brown

Highlights from Maptivist student projects

High school students working with our educators explored the question of how racial ideas become spatial practice in Boston

June 15, 2021
Eric Robsky Huntley, Garrett Dash Nelson, and Michelle LeBlanc

Maps with Young Learners in Mind

A new grant-funded project in collaboration with faculty and students at MIT will support the development of tools to teach critical geospatial data at the pK-12 level