Historian Lindsay Frederick Braun spoke on “Mapping in 19th Century Africa”. “My work over the last decade and a half has involved surveying, mapping, and struggles over land and landscape in South Africa between the middle of the…
Cartographic historian and New York Map Society member Chet Van Duzer spoke on “Shipwrecks, Treasure, and Maps at the End of the Seventeenth Century: The Manuscript Atlases of William Hack.” In this talk, following a…
“Mapping Indigenous Land: Native Land Grants in Colonial New Spain” by Ana Pulido Rull
“Women in American Cartography: An Invisible Social History”. “The nation’s foremost expert on women’s contributions to maps, mapmaking, and map use, Tyner draws on her own research and that of others to produce…
Andrew Kapochunas on “New York’s Newtown Creek: Death and Resurrection – A Chronicle in Maps and Photographs.”
Dr. Larry Tise spoke about his recent co-authored book, “Theodore De Bry — America: The Complete Plates from 1590-1602”
Lars Grava on “At the Edge of Empires – Maps of the Baltic States”. The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been at the crossroads of neighboring powers for centuries…
Eric W. Sanderson’s update to his “Welikia Project.” “We’re going beyond ‘Mannahatta,’ launching the Welikia Project to encompass all of New York…
“Just in case I don’t live forever, what should happen to my collection?”
Ian Fowler on “Cartographic Visions of New Netherland and New Amsterdam”. Ian took us on an exploration of the history of the shifting populations of Manhattan..