Learn about the intricacies of Carleton’s 1795 map from Dr. John W. Mackey, a Master Lecturer of Social Sciences in the College of General Studies at Boston University.
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Check out these highlights from the December 6 From the Vault: Unconventional Maps.
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The LMEC Education team welcomed educators from the annual National Council for Social Studies conference to the Leventhal Center for three days of workshops and open houses.
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Check out these highlights from the November 22 From the Vault: Doing More with Maps.
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Documenting the places and spaces where the Eaton sisters (primarily Winnifred and Edith) lived and wrote
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Check out these highlights from the November 1 themed From the Vault: Indigenous Geographies. This collection showing event was specially curated in partnership with Amira Madison, the Supporting Indigenous Communities Fellow at the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics..
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Check out these highlights from the October 25th themed From The Vault: Out With the Old, In With the New. This collections showing event was specially curated by our Visitor Services & Exhibitions Assistant, Sam Walker.
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In this two-part article series, friend of the Center, Gerald A. Rosenthal, explores the history and infrastructure of Boston in 1906 and also uses the 1906 film Seeing Boston to provide a detailed tour by trolley car through the city.
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Two new Atlascope tours explore the details of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James' 1911 trip to Salem, MA and Melnea Cass, namesake of “Melnea Cass Boulevard”, and her extensive history of activism throughout Boston
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Check out these highlights from the October 11th themed From The Vault: Time Travel: Back to 1906 Boston. This collections showing event was specially curated by friend of the Center, Gerald A. Rosenthal.
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