December 07, 2025

Media appearance on NPR, no less

December 07, 2025/ Matthew Edney

For your information, the Osher Map Library and its amazing team were interviewed the other week by Jackie Northam, who boiled down 3 hours of interviews into a 6:30 segment on this morning’s Weekend Edition Sunday. It’s a very nice piece, augmented by my students in GEO 370, Maps, Power, Territory, and some wonderful online photos by Greta Rybus!

You can read the transcript and listen to the segment at www.npr.org/2025/12/07/nx-s1-5619794/maps-globes-maine-library. Enjoy!

p.s., this is how I can discover which of my friends listen to NPR of a weekend morning!

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.

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The books …

Comparative Map History and “the History of Cartography”: Methodologies, Institutions, and Idealizations in Brill Research Perspectives on Map History. Available from Brill in print and as an ebook ($87).

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).

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