Student Projects

Mapping Boston’s History

Students learned how to use the Knight Lab StoryMaps tool, built slides individually, and in groups created interactive maps focused on different themes related to Boston’s history. Each of the class’s six discussion sections chose a broad theme to work on, then subgroups chose a focus within that theme, then each student chose specific sites within the group theme.

Here is an example, by the group who focused on sites associated with slavery in Boston in the eighteenth century (links to all of the StoryMaps below):

 

Slavery

• 17th Century
• 18th Century
• 19th Century

Industry and Trade

• The Education Industry
• Fishing and Seafood
• Shipping
• Trade

Social Justice

• Civil Rights Movement
• 1960s-1970s Protests
• Social Movements at Universities
• LGBTQ

Immigration and Multiculturalism

• Development of Boston’s Chinatown
• Irish Culture
• Italian Migration
• Vietnamese Immigration and Culture

Leisure

• Restaurants and Taverns
• Parks
• Museums
• Theaters

Religions

• Islam
• Catholicism
• Judaism

 

Journal of the Plague Year, COVID-19 Archive Optional Assignment

Students had the option (as a bonus exercise) to contribute to the online COVID-19 archive, Journal of the Plague Year. You can see some of their posts below:

• London to Boston
• My First Northeastern Semester- COVID-19 Style
• Boston Celebrated Joe Biden’s Victory in the 2020 election
• “Silver Lining” to the Pandemic and My College Experience
• Amplified Uncertainty
• South End Resilience
• University Campus Dining during COVID-19
• From Norway to Boston
• My Story with Coronavirus
• Isolation
• Being a High School Senior during a Pandemic
• College during a Global Pandemic
• Northeastern NUin Program
• University in the Pandemic
• Stuck in the North