Emily Bowe, Assistant Director of the Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library, and Ian Spangler, Assistant Curator of Digital & Participatory Geography at the Leventhal Map & Education Center, present the 2025 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture on Thursday, April 24, 2025 at 6 p.m. The title of their talk is “Processing Place: How Computers and Cartographers Redrew Our World."

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This will be the 35th annual presentation in the Maps & America: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture series, organized by the American Geographical Society Library and supported by an endowment created by Arthur and Janet Holzheimer. The lecture series was inaugurated by the noted cartographic historian Brian Harley in 1990. Over the years, the series has featured many of the leading figures in the field of map history and provided a multifaceted survey of this rapidly developing field.