September 09, 2020

"Mapping Maine" is up and ready to visit

September 09, 2020/ Matthew Edney

OML’s exhibition for the Maine bicentnnial is finally done!

Maine gained statehood—in a divorce from Massachusetts—on 15 March 1820. The celebrations have been interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. I certainly lost momentum on my own map-focused exhibition, but this has finally been installed, I have written the labels, and the website is almost done!!

So:

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

10 September 2020 – 31 March 2021.

Osher Map Library and Smith Center for Cartographic Education
University of Southern Maine

Check oshermaps.org for information about seeing it in person.

ONLINE at https://oshermaps.org/exhibitions/maine-bicentennial !!

Opening Talk

12 September 2020, 3pm (Eastern) – it’s free!

[update 10 September] Here’s a link to my walk through of the exhibition: https://youtu.be/j5RKHKqxzGw. Feel free to subscribe to the OML YouTube channel!

Mapping as Process

Mapping as Process is a space for me to explore a new approach to understanding mapping and its history. The exploration will eventually contribute to a book of the same name.

Search Mapping as Process:

The books …

Cartography in the European Enlightenment, Volume Four of The History of Cartography, edited by myself and Mary Pedley. Available from the University of Chicago Press, in print and ebook ($500).

Available from the University of Chicago Press in paperback ($30), e-book ($10–30), or cloth ($90).

Some paperback ($38) copies are still available, as well as the ebook, from the University of Chicago Press.