Portolan Issue #116 has just been published and is now available on this website to members. Check out the Table of Contents here.

The video of the WMS member meeting on June 14, 2023 is now available in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Rodney Kite-Powell from the Tampa Bay History Center. The title of the presentation is "Key West and the Florida Keys: Mapping the History of the Conch Republic."

The video of the WMS member meeting on May 19, 2023, at the WMS Annual Dinner, is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speakers were Andrew Adamson of Heritage Charts and Frank Licameli of George Mason University.  Their presentation was titled " F. W. Des Barres' Great Folly."

The video of the WMS member meeting on March 16, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was George Barros from the Institute for the Study of War in Washington, DC. The title of the presentation is "Open-Source Maps: Mapping the Russian Invasion of Ukraine."

The video of the WMS member meeting on February 16, 2023 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speakers were John Hessler, Catherine Discenza and Anika Fenn Gilman. The title of the presentation is "The Mapping of Race in America: The Legacy of Slavery and Redlining from 1860 to Present."

Portolan Issue #115 has just been published and is now available on this website to members. Check out the Table of Contents here.

The video of the WMS member meeting on January 5, 2023 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Andrew Kapochunas, secretary of the New York Map Society and member of the Lithuanian Cartographic Society. The title of the presentation is "The Struggle of Mapmakers to Keep Up with Changing Post-WWI Boundaries Between Lithuania and Poland."

The video of the WMS member meeting on December 14, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Frank Manasek, retired Professor from Dartmouth Medical School, and a former antiquarian map dealer. The title of the presentation is "The Birth of Moon Maps: Looking Through the Telescope, 1610-1696."

The video of the WMS member meeting on November 30, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Dr. Thomas Horst from the University of Lisbon, Portugal. The title of his presentation is "The Amazing (Hi-)Story of the Bavarian Army Library Map Collection - Reconstructed 60 Years After Its Restitution to Germany."

The video of the WMS member meeting on September 20, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Les Trager, retired lawyer and member of the New York and Washington Map Societies. The title of his presentation is Maps of the Ancient Explorers and Climate Implications.