Exhibition in the making: Terrains of Independence

Our newest exhibition, Terrains of Independence, is almost here! Last week, we deinstalled Processing Place, which saw over 28,000 visitors during its seven-month run. Our staff—alongside colleagues from the Boston Public Library, art hangers, and vinyl installers—have been working to transform our gallery. Join us for Opening Day on April 3 to see how maps can offer a unique entry point to reconsider the Revolutionary War through the lens of locality and place. Terrains of Independence will be on display through March 2026, covering the 250th anniversary of the most important Revolutionary moments in Boston and Massachusetts. We hope to see you there!

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Applications Due Tomorrow: Learning Resource Specialist

Could you be our next team member? The Center is searching for a Learning Resource Specialist. We are looking for someone with the knowledge, creativity, and enthusiasm to create asynchronous learning tools that draw educators and general audiences into the collections of the Leventhal Center through themes of geography, social studies, and place-based history. Upon hire, the Learning Resource Specialist will collaborate with the Director of Education on a year-long revision of existing educational resources for K-12 educators. For full consideration, apply by Tuesday, April 1, 2025 at 12:00 pm ET.

Image credit: Michael Clarke, Suffolk University

Learn more about the position → 

Digital Publications Grants: Apply Now

Are you working on a public-facing scholarly project that would come alive through an interactive digital publication?

The Leventhal Map & Education Center’s Small Grants Fund for Early Career Digital Publications is open for applications for the 2025-2026 academic year. The Small Grants program supports early career scholars through the process of producing a publication for general audiences in a digital format. The program is designed to catalyze creative projects which utilize a digital medium to present scholarly work through engaging, accessible, and experimental communicative modalities. Read about one of our past cohorts of Small Grant awardees here. Applications are open until Monday, May 19 at 5 pm ET.

Apply for the grant → 

Fundraising goal reached!

Thanks to our generous donors, we’ve completed our fundraising goal for the David J. Weaver Fund! Reaching this goal before the end of March also unlocked a matching gift of $2000, bring us to more than $4000 raised for this fund that supports educational programming and public-facing research into the history of digital mapping.

Learn about the fund → 

Newsletter Trivia: British Soldiers in Boston

In 1765, 15,520 people lived in Boston. By October 1768, British troops had arrived and dramatically changed the composition of the city’s population. After the arrival of the troops, soldiers were one of every ____ men in Boston.

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The answer to last newsletter’s question about which country is credited with creating the first program to collect national land use data using GIS to automate map production was Canada!

Correct answers will be included in a random draw—the winner will receive the next three Map of the Month club postcards for free. Congratulations to our last winner, Patricia! In order to enter, make sure you follow us on Bluesky, Instagram or Facebook and direct message or email us the answer to the following question. We’ll accept answers until April 7 at 9 am ET.

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Newsletter Exclusive: Gift Store Discount

Boston was a hub of colonial America, and served as a busy North American port for European ships and merchants. In the spirit of Boston’s history as a port city and the opening of our new exhibition, Terrains of Independence, we’re offering free shipping from the gift store with the code PORTBOSTON. This code is exclusive to newsletter subscribers; thank you for keeping up with the Leventhal Center!

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