Art
Back in 1932, a naval historian named Charles O. Paullin and a geographer named John K. Wright published a colossus of cartography called Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States.
Art
If you want to claim a territory, it's good to have a map to show what's yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a form of political control and public perception by Western colonial powers from the 16th and 20th c
Art
People in New York City seem to have a particular fixation with mapping the past.
Opinion
You don't really want your maps to be "artistic" renderings of reality, we all prefer them accurate, but the recent release of Apple's iOS6 maps is proving more artistic fiction rather than fact.