Mapping Our Cultural History
This project will be the archival database for RCUCH. Initially this website will focus on mapping the larger Boston area, but thereafter will begin filling in areas of the map on a global level as these areas relate to the research and teaching projects affiliated with or initiated by the Center. The multi-level map will create an architecture for the database that can accommodate current, ongoing, and future research and teaching projects as well as archive completed projects. Some of these levels include: sociological maps of community-based demographics, community activism projects, historical documentation of a community; topographical maps of land mass changes, land use changes, land rights history; interpretive mapping of intersections in the literary, political, economic, racial, artistic aspects of historical events. The Mapping Project will integrate ongoing research in cultural history at UMB with Center activities and initiatives in order to create an archival resource for research, teaching, and community-based projects at UMB, external institutions, and the public schools.
