- 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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- June 19, 2021
- LMEC Staff
The Maps of Dumont de Montigny
An exploration of one cartographer’s work mapping French colonial sites in Louisiana
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- 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
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- 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
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