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Upcoming Events

Professional Development - The Basics of Teaching with Maps (in partnership with George Washington’s Mount Vernon)
16
Oct

Professional Development - The Basics of Teaching with Maps (in partnership with George Washington’s Mount Vernon)

K12 professional development
Martin Brückner: For the Love of Maps: Material Passion and Power in Eighteenth-Century America
22
Oct

Martin Brückner: For the Love of Maps: Material Passion and Power in Eighteenth-Century America

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25
Oct

Out With the Old, In With the New — From the Vault Collections Showing

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Two New Atlascope Tours from Summer 2024 Interns
  • Oct 11, 2024
  • Carlos Cuera Caro, Anna Hsu

Two New Atlascope Tours from Summer 2024 Interns

Two new Atlascope tours explore the details of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James' 1911 trip to Salem, MA and Melnea Cass, namesake of "Melnea Cass Boulevard", and her extensive history of activism throughout Boston

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Time Travel Back to 1906 Boston
  • Oct 9, 2024
  • Gerald A. Rosenthal

Time Travel Back to 1906 Boston

Boston is an ever-evolving city, so it can be difficult to imagine just how different Boston looked and functioned over century ago. In this two-part article series, friend of the Center, Gerald A. Rosenthal, explores the history and infrastructure of Boston in 1906 and also uses the 1906 film Seeing Boston to provide a detailed tour by trolley car through the city.

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