Comparing Boston's past to present with historic media. Atlascope provides a database of historic maps, and Peter Vanderwarker documents Boston's changing architecture through photography.

Broome County Clerk Joe Mihalko unveiled the historic Boston Purchase map dating back to 1793. It’s a double-sided map that shows the region north of the Susquehanna River between Owego Creek ...

Boston newspapers first pitched plans for a proto-Freedom Trail in the 1930s. But the idea didn’t catch on until after World War II. By that point, most of the city’s once-massive textile ...