Links for Maps and History
The following list provides links to the more comprehensive and thoughtful lists of web sites which deal with map history.
Oddens's
Bookmarks
The canonical listing of web sites dealing with all sorts of maps:
maps, maps, and maps! It is very thorough and is kept up to date. This
is truly the starting place for anyone looking for map stuff.
History of Cartography
This web site was established as a "disciplinary" web site and should
be visited by anyone professionally or intellectually interested in the
history of cartography. It provides links to lists of all sorts of events,
conferences, etc.; it also provides good introductory bibliographies on
a number of special topics in cartographic history.
MapForum.Com
A monthly magazine, begun in January 1999, dealing with old maps; a
very useful resource, effectively continuing R. V. Tooley's Map Collectors'
Circle and elements of The Map Collector.
Geography and Map Division,
Library of Congress
The largest map library in the world, the Library of Congress has embarked
on an ambitious program to scan, and to place on the internet, many of
the important maps in North American history.
Early Modern Literary
Studies
Rhonda Lemke Sanford, "Early Modern Cartographic Resources on the World
Wide Web." Early Modern Literary Studies 4.2 / Special Issue 3 (September,
1998): 13.1-18.
This is a well-arranged and thoughtful listing of links concerning
the history of cartography, presented as part of an on-line "electronic
journal." The articles in the journal will probably appeal only to the
more academically inclined, but this listing of links has very wide appeal.
