New Boston Transit Exhibition Coming in September

In September 2023, we’ll open our newest exhibition, Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit! This exhibition will feature an extraordinary collection of transit maps and invite questions about how people have moved around the city in the past, present, and future. Our guest curator is Steven Beaucher, the author of Boston In Transit and owner of WardMaps in Cambridge. In this article, we talk with Steven about how he became immersed in transit mapping, and what he thinks will be most intriguing about the upcoming exhibition.

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Deadline Approaching: Small Grants for Early Career Digital Publications

Are you working on a scholarly project that would come alive for the public through an interactive digital publication? The Small Grants for Early Career Digital Publications program provides funding and technical assistance for scholars in any humanities or social science discipline working towards a digital publication for the public. Applications open through May 18, 2023.

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Explore Boston's History with the Walk to the Sea

Spring has sprung here in Boston! The upcoming months of warm weather are the perfect time to get outside and explore Boston’s history with our free (and newly relaunched!) Walk to the Sea self-guided walking tour. From Beacon Hill to Long Wharf, the Walk passes historic monuments and skyscrapers with markers running through downtown to learn how Boston’s spaces have changed over time.

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Virtual: Benjamin L. Carp on Urban Geographies of the American Revolution · May 30, 7:00pm ET

How did Boston’s waterfront geography become a flashpoint for rebellion? How did public gathering spaces in Philadelphia create the context for democratic ideas about mass politics? Can maps help us learn whether New York City was deliberately set on fire in 1776? Join us on May 30 at 7PM with scholar Benjamin L. Carp to learn about these and other insights from a historical geographic approach to the Revolutionary period.

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Bidding Adieu to April

April was National Poetry Month! You may not immediately put maps and poems in the same category, but both are mediums rich with meaning. Many of the maps in our collection even have poems inscribed on them, in legends, around borders, and hidden away in overlooked corners. Check out these examples of poems on maps, and let us know which is your favorite.

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