- January 31, 2024
- Joan Brunetta and Eve Loftus
Mapping Black Cambridge: 1790-1820
Snapshots of Black life in a New England city from the first four federal censuses, 1790–1820
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- August 24, 2023
- Nathan Braccio
John Winthrop's "City on a Hill," Mapped
Providing a glimpse into how Winthrop’s "City on a Hill" interfaced with everyday life of Indigenous peoples in colonial New England
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- July 17, 2024
- Alice King
Tribute and Territory in the Pequot Country
Seventeenth-century maps and conflicts in colonial New England
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- 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
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- June 3, 2022
- Rachel Sharer
LMEC Awarded Grant to Support Community History Exhibition
The Leventhal Center has been awarded a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Regional Grant to support a 2023 urban atlas exhibition.
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- April 30, 2024
- Ilana Bean
Within the Body and Beyond It
Reflecting on the shared lineage of cartography and anatomy
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- November 21, 2025
- Genna Kane
Making Power, Making Land: The Spatial Legacy of Boston’s Energy Production
The creation of new land and the development of power infrastructure have a shared history along Boston's waterfront—one that still impacts our environment today
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- April 4, 2023
- Ian Spangler
Meet LMEC’s 2023 Small Grants Awardees
Keep an eye out for updates on these exciting research projects!
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- October 2, 2025
- Geoffrey Phelippot
Playing and Learning World Geography in the Seventeenth Century
What card games can tell us about the geographical imagination
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- 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
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