Report: Woman Posed As Heiress To Infiltrate Mar-a-Lago, Trump Inner Circle

MSNBC– Aug 26, 2022

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that authorities are investigating a Russian-speaking immigrant from Ukraine who pretended to be a Rothschild heiress, made several trips to Mar-a-Lago—and even met with Trump.

Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past

GBH Forum Network – Mar 19, 2014

Jeremy Black, professor of history at the University of Exeter, argues that historical atlases offer an understanding of the past that is invaluable, not only because they convey a previous age’s sense of space and distance, but also because they reveal what historians and educators of those periods thought important to include or omit. Black explores the role, development, and nature of these important reference tools, from ancient to modern times.

Lecture: “How Did They Make Those Maps”

McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture – Nov 30, 2012

Lecture, “How Did They Make Those Maps?”, given by Dr. Robert Karrow on February 13, 2011 at the McClung Museum. For most people looking at a world map from 1500 that shows land masses more or less the way we know they look, the first question to come to mind is likely to be “How did they do that?” This talk will try to answer that question by examining the basics of earth measurement from antiquity to the 19th century.

Robert W. Karrow, Jr. is Curator of Maps and Curator of Special Collections at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He has a doctorate in history, has published and lectured widely in the history of cartography and has a particular interest in the history of surveying.

The History of Cartography, Volume Four: Cartography in the European Enlightenment – Book Trailer

History of Cartography Project– Mar 25, 2021

The History of Cartography Project is excited to introduce Cartography in the European Enlightenment.
→ To purchase the volume, visit https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/…
→ To learn more about the Project, visit https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/
→ To support the Project, visit https://supportuw.org/giveto/histcart

• The History of Cartography, Volume 4: Cartography in the European Enlightenment (Volume 4)
• The Imperial Map: Cartography and the Mastery of Empire (The Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. Lectures in the History of Cartography)
• The Provinces of the Roman Empire from Caesar to Diocletian: Including Historical Maps of All Roman Imperial Regions eBook : Mommsen, Theodor, Kiepert, Richard, Dickson, William P.
• History of the World Map by Map | Smithsonian Institution
• The Africa Map Circle – Introduction & Digital Resource Directory

Mapping Maine: The Land and Its Peoples, 1677–1842

History of Cartography Project – May 20, 2021

Dr. Matthew H. Edney, Osher Professor in the History of Cartography at the University of Southern Maine and Director of the History of Cartography Project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Washington Map Society, January 5, 2021 This talk features maps from an exhibit at the Osher Map Library, University of Southern Maine.
You can view the exhibit at https://oshermaps.org/exhibitions/mai…

World Maps in the European Enlightenment

History of Cartography Project– Apr 22, 2021

How did Europeans map the world between 1650 and 1800? Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, offers a new perspective on the history of the world map and its many variations.
→ To purchase the volume, visit https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/…
→ To learn more about the Project, visit https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/ ​
→ To support the Project, visit https://supportuw.org/giveto/histcart

See related:

• The Africa Map Circle – Introduction & Digital Resource Directory

Positive Geography in the European Enlightenment: Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville

History of Cartography Project– Jul 1, 2021

One of the most prominent mapmakers in the European Enlightenment was Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville. Learn more about his approach to mapmaking, known as critical or positive geography, as explored by Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume 4 of The History of Cartography

To purchase the volume, visit https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/…

→ To learn more about the Project, visit https://geography.wisc.edu/histcart/

→ To support the Project, visit https://supportuw.org/giveto/histcart

See related:

• The Africa Map Circle – Introduction & Digital Resource Directory