The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

An exhibition of maps opened at the British Library in London on Saturday, exploring how maps became increasingly present in the 20th century. The exhibition, "Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the ...

The Princeton University Library has completed a multiyear project of digitizing a collection of 19th- and 20th-century maps that illustrate the history and development of communities around New ...

This interactive workshop invites faculty, students, and anyone interested in maps to explore the Map Library as a dynamic classroom resource and to learn how maps, used as primary sources and ...

On April 24, 1800, President John Adams founded the Library of Congress. Today it holds over 170 million items and remains ...

The Harvard Map Collection’s exhibit on ink-drawn-maps will come to a close next week, ending a display of antique maps that has been open to the public in the Pusey Library since May. The “Manuscript ...

This fascinating new exhibition in London reveals the multitude of ways that maps have been used to both explain and manipulate the world, from across the centuries ...

The National Library of Israel received some 466 rare maps and 120 books with prints, illustrations and maps of the Land of Israel, from collector Howard Golden. The antique maps, dating from 1475 to ...

A Los Angeles real estate agent clearing out the house of a man who died found tens of thousands of maps, stuffed in cabinets and closets, even inside a stereo. One was from 1592, the L.A. Times ...

Long Beach Opera will present The Library of Maps: An Opera in Many Parts—Pauline Oliveros’ uniquely experimental opera devised in collaboration with poet and librettist, Moira Roth. Originally ...