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January 13, 2021
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Confronting the content of collections

A Twitter bot trawling through our digital collections brings up questions

January 4, 2021
LMEC Staff

Roaring Twenties Countdown

These maps from our collections, one for each 20s decade starting in 1520, helped us count down to New Years 2021

December 30, 2020
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Stretching the world at the end of a war

A Newsmap from December 1945 shows how cartographic projection promoted the U.S. view of itself as a global power

December 23, 2020
Rachel Mead and Garrett Dash Nelson

Six news stories from 2020, seen through Atlascope

Over the past year, sometimes the news invited us into the past

December 21, 2020
Garrett Dash Nelson and Belle Lipton

Introducing our Public Data project

The Leventhal Map & Education Center is breaking new ground in bringing geospatial data empowerment to the public, supported by a grant from the Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub

November 24, 2020
Lauren Chen

What a relief

How to make a relief map in the era before 3D printing

November 23, 2020
Garrett Dash Nelson

A sylvan boundary

Why the line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire pivots around a pine tree

November 19, 2020
Garrett Dash Nelson

Parts unknown—or willful ignorance

What’s hidden in the emptiness of a map

November 2, 2020
Lauren Chen

Sundial maps

A little-known map projection casts light on the relationship between time and maps

October 31, 2020
Rachel Mead

A Candy Tour of Boston

Just in time for Halloween, here's some trick-or-treating you can do without leaving your home!

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