Links

• Map History
  (http://www.maphistory.info)
  This is a major gateway site for the history of cartography, maintained by Tony Campbell, Map Librarian (retired), British Library, London.
• Recent Trends in the History of Cartography
  (http://purl.oclc.org/coordinates/b6.htm)
  This reference list, compiled by Matthew Edney and published in the online journal Coordinates: Online Journal of the Map and Geography Round Table is periodically updated.
• The History of Cartography Project
  (http://www.geography.wisc.edu/histcart/)
  This is the home site for the award-winning series of the multi-volume History of Cartography series, founded by J. Brian Harley and David Woodward.
• Maps of the French and Indian War
  (http://www.masshist.org/maps/MapsHome/Home.htm)
  This site is hosted by The Massachusetts Historical Society.
• American Memory Project
  (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Maps)
  This extensive map site is home to eleven separate map collections, including 16th to 18th century collections focused on the Louisiana Purchase and the American Revolutionary War era, including the Rochambeau Map Collection. Also within the American Memory pages is the "George Washington: Surveyor and Mapmaker" site
  (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gwmaps.html).
• Atlantic Neptune Charts
  (http://www.nmm.ac.uk/collections/explore/index.cfm/category/90437)
  The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK has digitized the entire four volume set of Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres'  The Atlantic Neptune, including all the variants held in their extensive Henry Newton Stevens Collection.
• The David Rumsey Map Collection
  (http://www.davidrumsey.com)
  This elaborate site now approaches 20,000 maps online, and is mostly focused on 18th and 19th century North and South America. For those wishing a somewhat more expansive selection, see the cartography collections linked at the Cartography Associates, David Rumsey "Visual Collections" site
  (http://www.davidrumsey.com/collections/cartography.html).
• The Osher Map Library at the University of Southern Maine
  (http://www.usm.maine.edu/maps/home.html)
  A number of online exhibitions are posted here, and there is a strong focus on K-12 educational outreach using maps.
• The Newberry Library slide sets
  (http://www.newberry.org/smith/slidesets.html)
  These are posted online courtesy of The Herman Dunlop Smith Center for the History of Cartography. The Smith Center also maintains another map-related site, "Historic Maps in K-12 Classrooms"
  (http://www.newberry.org/k12maps/index.html).
• Collaborative Digital Libraries
  (http://international.loc.gov/intldl/find/digital_collaborations.html)
  This site, while not precisely devoted to maps, there is quite a bit of cartographic material within these varied pages.