The oldest and rarest manuscript map in the American Geographical Society Library’s collection–Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo’s 1452 mappamundi–will be scanned using multispectral technology in March this year. A team from the Lazarus Project, based at the University of Rochester, is …
One of the American Geographical Society Library’s most cherished holdings, the 1452 Mappamundi by the Venetian cartographer Giovanni Leardo, is undergoing multispectral imaging this winter. Join us for a series of events, starting with a talk by AGSL Curator Marcy …
A talk on the AGSL’s Leardo Mappamundi will be held Wednesday, March 12 at 5 pm in conjunction with the Lazarus Project‘s visit to UWM to take multispectral images of the Leardo. Chet Van Duzer, Board Member at the Lazarus …
Stephen Appel joined the UWM Libraries’ staff in 2016 as geospatial information librarian in the American Geographical Society Library (AGSL), one of the foremost cartographic libraries in North America. But he was already well-acquainted with campus and the library, having …
Join us for a talk at 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 10 by Sergio González, author of Mexicans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society Press) and Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in Twentieth-Century Wisconsin (University of Illinois Press), as …
The American Geographical Society Library (AGSL) and Digital Collections & Initiatives (DC&I) department have launched GeoDiscovery, an online geoportal that provides discovery and access to geospatial data in AGSL collections as well as data and maps held by other institutions, …
The American Geographical Society Library has awarded research fellowships to three international scholars for 2024. All three are exploring a “view from the outside“ — as one of the fellows, Jitka Močičková, characterizes her research topic — during their time …
For centuries, newspapers have created a touchpoint between citizens and local and world affairs. Whether considering a war on the other side of the globe or an election with local implications, maps in the news situate an event in its …
Presented by Robert J. Schneider, Ph.D., Professor and Co-Chair, Department of Urban Planning, UWM. US pedestrian fatalities increased by 51% between 2010 and 2020 (4,302 to 6,516 fatalities per year), and nearly all of the additional pedestrian fatalities that occurred …
Tim Wallace, Senior Editor for Geography at The New York Times, presents the 2024 “Maps & America”: Arthur Holzheimer Lecture on Thursday, April 11, 2024 at 6 p.m. in the American Geographical Society Library, located on the third floor of …