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The New Map of Empire (draft site)
A large collections of more than 500 maps, plans, and charts of British North America and the West Indies. The final site will provide a full archive of images featured in S. Max Edelson, The New Map...
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Defining Carolina
A collection of 34 maps of early Carolina featured in S. Max Edelson, “Defining Carolina: Cartography and Colonization in the North American Southeast, 1657-1733,” in Michelle LeMaster and Bradford...
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Backstory: Catawba Map (open link, then click ‘add original map’)
University of Virginia historian S. Max Edelson discusses three early American maps on the public radio program “Backstory with the American History Guys”
View ArticleMapScholar wins NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant
MapScholar project receives 3-year NEH Grant to Help Scholars Publish Digital Map Collections (July 27, 2012) — To understand how people in the past perceived geographic space, scholars have been drawn...
View ArticleUVA Today on our MapScholar NEH grant
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=19278
View ArticleMax Edelson discusses the Catawba Deerskin Map (c. 1721) on “Backstory”
For more on the show, and how to listen, click here: http://backstoryradio.org/here-to-there-a-history-of-mapping/ To view the map, click this link, then click “add original map”:...
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Edelson lecture on Caribbean Cartography features MapScholar
The Board of Trade dictated that the new islands be represented by a “Sugar Mill . . . with Slaves at work” accompanied by the Latin motto: “hae tibi erunt artes,” or, in English “these will be your...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress lecture first to feature MapScholar
University of Virginia history professor S. Max Edelson presented a collection of maps of the North American Indian boundary to illustrate a lecture to the Washington Map Society on March 28, 2013....
View ArticleNew article in the JMGL
The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries: Advances in Geospatial Information, Collections & Archives has published a new article about MapScholar. Written by MapScholar developers S. Max...
View Article“Touch History” project uses MapScholar to explore the cartographic record of...
Scholar Louis-Pascal Rousseau is developing a visual exhibit of the maps, views, and key historic places of Quebec City. He’s become an early adopter of MapScholar and has posted a few YouTube videos...
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Mapping the “Whole Coast”
Territory, Cartography, and the Problem of Scale in British America, 1763-1775
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A Beginner’s Guide to Mapping Early America with Basic GIS
Alyssa Zuercher Reichardt at The Junto has posted an excellent new guide for mapping neophytes interested in Early America. She covers a variety of use cases and tools, including MapScholar.
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