The following is a list of all the guest classes for USM courses to be taught at OML by Prof. Edney in the Spring 2013 semester:American & New England Studies 650 - Practices of Everyday Life - the historical evidence provided by fire insurance p...
The Cartographic Collection at the Boston Athenaeum is impressively displayed here. From the website: "This digital collection features representative items from the Athenæum cartographic holdings containing thousands of sheet maps, p...
A recent PBS story drew attention to the series of "Green Books" that guided African Americans through segregated America, between 1936 and the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. As Maria Goodavage noted in that story, the 1949 edition carried ...
OML friend and donor Richard Auletta has just sent news of a wonderful tumblr feed ~ Transit Maps: Showing You How to get from Here to There ~ devoted to images of transit maps. What I especially like is that, in addition to a wide variety of tr...
"Modern explorer Nicholas Crane travels across eight maps that changed the face of Britain in a series of geographical challenges through some of today's wildest landscapes, telling the story of British mapmaking from the time of Chaucer through to t...
The WBEZ radio program This American Life produced a show on mapping which originally aired 04 September 1998. Presented are five stories on individuals engaged in unusual mapping: a mapper of the details of New York City sidewalks; a cartographer of...
McGill University has a nice portal for their collection of Canadian county attlases, In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian County Digital Atlas Project. A useful feature here is the ability to search the database for property owner...
OML has acquired a small collection of private papers from the archives of Lemuel Moody (1767-1846), famous for his work in creating the Portland Observatory (1807-9). He also made and published, in 1825, a chart of Casco Bay and Portland harbor. Thi...
ISHM ~ the International Society for the History of the Map ~ is about to enter it's second year. Everyone is invited to join. By doing so you will receive a reduced subscription to Imago Mundi, the main journal in the field. (The combined ...
The Atlantic magazine has published its list of the "best of 2012" . . . maps!Despite the chronological limitation, there is one early map in the post -- of Estonia from what looks to me to be an edition of Ortelius's Theatrum orbis terrarum, co...
