November is Indigenous People’s Heritage Month, a chance to unlearn entrenched narratives and relearn the complex history and modern presence of Native people across North America
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Welcome to our new Assistant Curator for Digital and Participatory Geography!
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Map Center staff recently published an article in the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries that highlights the Center’s geospatial data work, including use of our public data portal and our Maptivists initiative with Boston high schools.
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Examining the history and future of America's third national park on the anniversary of its founding
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For international “Talk like a Pirate Day,” we use maps in our collection to examine the story of Captain Southack and his mandate to recover the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah off the coast of Cape Cod in 1717.
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A brief history of protests, takedowns and counter-proposals to the commemoration of Christopher Columbus in the United States
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Welcome to the newest member of the LMEC team!
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An interactive tour of one of the most important maps in the history of Boston Harbor's environmental management
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A participant in our summer NEH workshop for teachers discusses the new ways she looks at maps, the erasure of Native people, and how she’ll be teaching this fall.
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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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