- Sep 19, 2022
- Megan Nally
The (unrealized) Metropolitan Master Highway Plan of 1948
The Southwest Expressway and Inner Belt Highway projects were both proposed in the Master Highway Plan for the Boston Metropolitan Area in 1948. Designed to cut through densely-populated areas inside and outside of Boston, both projects were eventually halted and abandoned in the early 1970s.
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- Jul 5, 2022
- Lynn Brown
School's Out: Student Projects from the 2021-2022 Academic Year
The 2021-2022 school year has come to a close. Our K-12 Education Team, partner schools, educators, and students sure were busy!
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- Jan 31, 2022
- Michelle LeBlanc
Maptivists at the Margarita Muñiz Academy
Our education team spent the first two weeks of January teaching an intersession on critical map literacy to a small group of seniors at the Margarita Muñiz Academy.
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- Nov 15, 2021
- Michelle LeBlanc
Indigenous People’s Heritage Month: Lessons and Resources Exploring Land and Maps
November is Indigenous People’s Heritage Month, a chance to unlearn entrenched narratives and relearn the complex history and modern presence of Native people across North America
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- Aug 20, 2021
- Nyssa Patten
Unlearning and Relearning the Colonization of New England
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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Maps with Young Learners in Mind
A new grant-funded project in collaboration with faculty and students at MIT will support the development of tools to teach critical geospatial data at the pK-12 level
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