Although women have been involved in mapping throughout history, their story has largely been hidden. The standard histories of cartography have focused on men.

In the twenty-first century we speak of a geospatial revolution, but over one hundred years ago another mapping revolution was in motion. Women’s lives were i

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tacti

In the age of MapQuest and GPS, we take cartographic literacy for granted. We should not; the ability to find meaning in maps is the fruit of a long process of

Throughout its history, America has been defined through maps. Whether made for military strategy or urban reform, to encourage settlement or to investigate dis