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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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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In the late eighteenth century, an encounter between European and Chinese cartography left clues about the diffusion of geographic knowledge
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Let's take a closer look at some July maps from years past
Read moreJuly 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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