Announcing “Getting to Here”

We’re thrilled to announce that the Leventhal Center has been awarded a grant from Mass Humanities as part of their Expanding Massachusetts Stories (EMS) Initiative. This grant will support a new collaborative educational partnership with the Boston Area Technical Academy (BATA) called “Getting To Here: How Immigration Shapes an American City.” In this partnership, LMEC educators will work with BATA teachers and students to create and exhibit maps that demonstrate how immigrants have and continue to shape Boston. In total, the Center was part of a cohort of 64 organizations across Massachusetts that received $1.2 million in grant funding—congratulations to all our fellow grantees!

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If You Missed It: Martin Brückner on Eighteenth-Century Cartifacts

The most recent program in the Richard H. Brown Seminar Series on the Historical Geography of the American Revolutionary Era featured a discussion with Martin Brückner of the University of Delaware. In this program, Brückner spoke about how the consumer revolution of the eighteenth century profoundly affected people’s material lives and paved the way for other more momentous political revolutions. The recorded seminar is now available to watch on our website.

View Brückner's recorded seminar → 

Riding Around Boston

In the second half of his Seeing Boston series, friend of the Center Gerald A. Rosenthal invites us onto the trolley to view daily life in 1906 Boston. After taking us through the history and infrastructure of Boston in 1906, Rosenthal expands on what daily life as an early twentieth-century Bostonian may have looked like and how we can see ripples of this history in our current city.

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Learn More With Our Research Guides

With university midterms upon us and the end of the semester drawing ever closer, did you know the Leventhal Center has dedicated research guides to help access information and sources in our collections? The guides span a variety of topics, from Boston’s Urban Planning to Topographic Maps from the U.S. Geological Survey. Whether looking to do some in-depth research or looking for a quick recap of a new subject, we encourage you to check out this resource!

Full list of research guides → 

October "From the Vault" Highlights

In late September and October, we hosted three From The Vault events, Behind the Scenes of Processing Place, Time Travel Back to 1906 Boston, and Out With the Old, In With the New. From The Vault is a biweekly event series featuring collections objects. Each program revolves around a theme to explore and objects are on display in our Learning Center for the afternoon to come in and view these amazing artifacts. This month’s showings were curated and captioned by our Assistant Director, a longtime friend of the Center, and our Northeastern co-op student. We invite you to take a look at what they pulled from the collections in these roundup articles!

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Newsletter Trivia: Cambridge Candy Making

It’s time to test your map and history knowledge to win a chance of receiving three free months in our Map of the Month Club. In order to enter, make sure you follow us on Instagram or Facebook and direct message us the answer to the following question. We’ll accept answers until November 4 at 9 am ET. Correct answers will be included in a random draw—the winner will receive the next three Map of the Month club postcards for free. Congratulations to our last winner, Christina!

For nearly a century and well into the mid-1900s, Cambridge, Massachusetts was a major candy making center and was responsible for many of the classic candies people still know and love. Though most of the factories have closed, which of the following candies is still being manufactured in Cambridge today?

• Squirrel Nut Zippers
• Charleston Chews
• Sugar Daddies
• Junior Mints

The answer to the last Newsletter Trivia question about the 1875 tunnel still in use today is the Hoosac Tunnel.

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Stock up Before the Holidays: November Shop Discount

For all of our newsletter subscribers, we would like to thank you so much for your support of the Leventhal Map & Education Center. A coupon code for our store will be included at the end of the newsletter each month—the code changes monthly, so be sure to stay updated on what’s going on at the LMEC with each newsletter!

For the month of November, receive free shipping on any purchase in the store with the code COZYSEASON.

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