There is much more information about October's 18th series of Nebenzahl Lectures at the Newberry Library, Chicago.Entitled "The War of 1812 and American Cartography," the lectures will be held on 24-26th October, 2013, and will feature presentations ...
Anyone interested in the history of early maps will know Martin Waldseemüller's great 1507 world map, the known copy of which is the oldest surviving map to use the label "America" for any part of the New World. His subsequent work is the subje...
I just found myself writing an email to a US grad student who will be attending their first International Conferences on the History of Cartography [ICHC], offering some advice that should perhaps be more broadly disseminated. So, I have decided...
The 2013 series of Nebenzahl Lectures will address the mapping of the early U.S. Republic and the War of 1812. For information about the lectures, and the forthcoming series as it becomes available, please refer to the site of the Newberry's Hermon D...
