Europe at war: a red book of the greatest war of history: why and how Europe went to battle--men, guns, forts, ships, and aircraft of the warring countries--food supply, finances--the kaiser and other great personalities--stories of Alsac...
The Guardian (London) reports that maps of Palestine and Israel in Palestinian and Israeli school books generally omit the other country or the border between them. The newspaper coverage is based on a report, "Victims of Our Own Narratives? Por...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The "Percy Map": Maps and Military Strategy during the Revolution The Percy Map: Provenance and Dating Hugh Percy and Military Mapping Hugh Percy: Biography Military Mapping in the Revolution Re...
[expand title="EXHIBIT NAVIGATION"] The "Percy Map": Maps and Military Strategy during the Revolution The Percy Map: Provenance and Dating Hugh Percy and Military Mapping Hugh Percy: Biography Military Mapping in the Revolution Re...
Some wonderful people have made an interactive puzzle that wonderfully demonstrates how the Mercator Projection distorts size towards either pole. You start with 15 red countries scattered across a Mercator Projection of the world. A detail of the in...
Various maps and atlases acquired through the good graces of the Friends of the Osher Map Library, and donated to OML....
MapFight is a fun little online app ~ anonymous ~ that let's users compare the sizes of different countries and U.S. states. It's very useful in giving a sense of the sheer size of foreign places when users lack experience with them. For example, Mai...
Donna Seger has a nice, illustrated essay on some of the nineteenth and twentieth-century maps on which octopoi are used to warn of the creeping and insidious territorial and cultural expansion of certain states. She pulled this one from the Universi...
The Image Permanence Institute has a new website called The Graphic Atlas, which is a resource designed to help in identifying printing techniques from the earliest printed images right up to the present. Do the "Guided Tour" and choose a printing te...
The large wall on the side of the Osher Map Library bears an etched Dymaxion Map, designed by Buckminister "Bucky" Fuller. Fuller created his wonderful projection from interlocking triangles and squares that (1) can be arranged in complex patterns so...
