Boston & Cambridge, from here forward.
History Is For Everyone preserves the past. The Civic Graph maps the living future: the campuses, streets, institutions, ideas, and daily choices shaping what Boston becomes next.
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- editorial property lenses
The past is documented. The future is connected.
History Is For Everyone maps the Revolutionary past. The Civic Graph carries that rigor into the living future of Boston, Cambridge, and their colleges: what places mean now, how they connect, and what they may become next.
Start with Harvard University. From here, the city opens into people, streets, institutions, and memory.
Cambridge, reviewedFirst Printing Press in British America (1638)First Printing Press in British America (1638) is a good place to begin because it opens into people, streets, institutions, and memory.
A dated recordBattle of Bunker Hill (1775)On June 17, 1775, New England troops met the British army in the Revolution's first major pitched battle; British forces took the field after suffering severe casualties.
One quieter placeHarvard SquareA small detour with enough story to reward looking twice.
One buildingBoston Public LibraryA structure that reads as architecture, institution, and civic memory at once.
One eventRadcliffe College Founded (1879)A moment that still changes how the surrounding map makes sense.
Start exploring nine guides, one graph underneath
Guide to Cambridge
The whole city — eight squares, hundreds of restaurants, museums, and four centuries of history.
Editorial edition in development · preview →Boston 400
Four centuries of Boston, counting down to the city’s 400th birthday in 2030.
8 reviewed public records · live →Harvard 400
Four centuries of Harvard, 1636–2036
8 reviewed public records · live →Cambridge 400
Newtowne to the world’s laboratory — Cambridge’s own four hundred years.
8 reviewed public records · live →Guide to BU
Boston University, mapped building by building, with the city around it.
Editorial edition in development · preview →Guide to Harvard
Harvard and Harvard Square — the Yard, the museums, and the Square that surrounds them.
Editorial edition in development · preview →Guide to MIT
MIT, Kendall Square, and the innovation corridor of Cambridge.
Editorial edition in development · preview →Guide to Northeastern
Northeastern, Huntington Avenue, and the Fenway cultural mile.
Editorial edition in development · preview →Guide to Boston College
Boston College and the Heights at Chestnut Hill.
Editorial edition in development · preview →The living future read the region as it is, then follow what comes next
The reviewed recordOpen its evidence, see the editorial framing, and follow only the connections that have cleared the same publication standard.
A deliberately small edition of source-backed places. Working inventory stays out until an editor can defend it.
How the record is madeUnderstand what is published, what is still under review, and how every public claim traces to a source.
For institutionsBuild a source-backed civic record with explicit methods, review ownership, and measurement agreed before publication.
For institutions the canonical data layer for the region
Commission a civic record
Define the public questions, source standard, review ownership, and measurement plan before a page is published.
One record, for everyone
A free, bounded, CORS-enabled API for records that pass the public editorial and provenance standard.
We explain our certainty
Every record carries a confidence score and the reasons behind it. Built to be trusted by governments and universities.
The web organized the city into pages, and threw the connections away.
We kept the connections.