{"id":1787294,"date":"2019-05-09T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787294"},"modified":"2019-05-09T20:14:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T00:14:53","slug":"new-leventhal-exhibition-america-transformed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/new-leventhal-exhibition-america-transformed\/","title":{"rendered":"New Leventhal Exhibition: America Transformed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Leventhal Map Center’s latest exhibition,\u00a0America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century<\/em><\/a><\/strong>, opened last Saturday and runs until 10 November 2019.<\/p>\n

During the 19th century, the United States expanded dramatically westward. Immigrant settlers rapidly spread across the continent and transformed it, often through violent or deceptive means, from ancestral Native lands and borderlands teeming with diverse communities to landscapes that fueled the rise of industrialized cities. Historical maps, images and related objects tell the story of the sweeping changes made to the physical, cultural, and political landscape. Moving beyond the mythologized American frontier, this map exhibition explores the complexity of factors that shaped our country over the century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As usual, there’s a comprehensive online version<\/a>, which is peppered with acknowledgements of the very white, very settler-colonialist perspective of the maps on display. Which are, of course, justified, but as far as I can see they’re asterisks and asides on an otherwise unchanged exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Leventhal Map Center’s latest exhibition,\u00a0America Transformed: Mapping the 19th Century, opened last Saturday and runs until 10 November 2019. During the 19th century, the United States expanded dramatically westward. Immigrant settlers rapidly spread across… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[144,161,218,50,886,48,158],"class_list":["post-1787294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-history","tag-1800s","tag-boston","tag-bpl","tag-exhibitions","tag-leventhal","tag-libraries","tag-usa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1831161,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/05\/new-leventhal-exhibition-heaven-and-earth-the-blue-maps-of-china\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787294,"position":0},"title":"New Leventhal Exhibition: ‘Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China’","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 May 2024","format":"link","excerpt":"Daqing wannian yitong dili quantu (Suzhou, ca. 1820). 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