[MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment question
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + How about creating an RSS feed for the new site? Perhaps not the same as a listserv but it will alert people to new updates on the site with the titles of entries and can be sent to a new folder in Outlook to avoid email clutter. Mike Casino New Hampshire -Original Message- From: maphist-boun...@geo.uu.nl [mailto:maphist-boun...@geo.uu.nl] On Behalf Of maphist-requ...@geo.uu.nl Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 6:00 AM To: maphist@geo.uu.nl Subject: Maphist Digest, Vol 77, Issue 12 Send Maphist mailing list submissions to maphist@geo.uu.nl To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to maphist-requ...@geo.uu.nl You can reach the person managing the list at maphist-ow...@geo.uu.nl When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Maphist digest... This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum Today's Topics: 1. New MapHist Forum comment question (Jay L) 2. recent book (Rand Burnette) 3. Re: recent book (Joel Kovarsky) 4. The best American wall map: David Imus? ?The Essential Geography of the United States of America? - Slate MagazinofAmerica? - Slate Magazine (Rick Laprairie) -- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 13:53:45 -0500 From: Jay L carolinararem...@gmail.com Subject: [MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment question To: MapHist maph...@geog.uu.nl Message-ID: 6190881e-6479-46dd-befd-4fd6603c4...@gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Peter, The new MapHist Forum ( http://www.maphist.nl/forum ) is very well designed, and I believe it will be highly successful. The option to receive notifications of new posts via email is not only great, but absolutely essential. I would assume those who were in favor of the forum design over the listserv are not using the email notifications since one of their stated goals was to de-clutter their inboxes. However, the forum (as opposed to the listserv) is still a time sink for some of us. Is it possible for the email notifications to include the actual new post and a link to it, rather than just a link? It would save a lot of time for those of us who don't mind the emails and, from my perspective, would make the new forum irresistible, combining the best of the old and new. Regards, Jay L. -- Jay Lester Chapel Hill, NC -- Message: 2 Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 15:12:22 -0600 From: Rand Burnette burne...@mchsi.com Subject: [MapHist] recent book To: Discussion group for map history maphist@geo.uu.nl Message-ID: e522e905-866b-44c4-af28-6b39a526c...@mchsi.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Last fall I received a copy of Martin Bruckner, ed. Early American Cartographies. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline Press for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, 2011. The publication of the book was duly noted on the Map History list. At about the same time, however, another book was also published by the same press for the same sponsor, which I did not see mentioned. Paul W. Mapp's The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire, 1713-1763, 455 pp.39 maps, and 4 plates should be of interest to historians of cartography, especially those concerned with North America. Part of the dust jacket reads: A truly continental history in both its geographic and political scope, The Elusive West and the Conquest for Empire investigates eighteenth-century diplomacy involving North America and links geographic ignorance about the American West to Europeans' grand geopolitical designs. Breaking from scholars' traditional focus of the Atlantic world, Paul Mapp demonstrates the centrality of hitherto understudied western regions to early American history. Mapp deals with the Spanish, French, British and Amerindians ideas about the west, especially the transMississippi west. The volume is well documented (footnotes at the bottom of the page, as with the Bruckner volume) with research in the various archives. Rand Burnette, Professor Emeritus of History, MacMurray College, Jacksonville, IL 62650 burne...@mchsi.com January 8, 2012 -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/pipermail/maphist/attachments/20120108/1a882018/att achment-0001.html -- Message: 3 Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:47:36 -0500 From: Joel Kovarsky j...@theprimemeridian.com Subject: Re: [MapHist] recent book To: Discussion group for map history maphist@geo.uu.nl Message-ID:
Re: [MapHist] New MapHist Forum comment question
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + How about creating an RSS feed for the new site? Mike Casino New Hampshire Hi Mike, One of the problems with the email notifications is that you actually have to click on the link in the email and go to the forum or it will stop sending new notifications posted to that particular forum. That defeats the purpose of subscribing to the forum for email updates. Would that problem exist with RSS feed or not? I'm not RSS educated. Thanks, Jay L -- Jay Lester Chapel Hill, NC ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
[MapHist] Map-related presentation at Library of Congress - January 26, 2012 - The People Behind the Formation of the States’ Borders to Be Discussed
This is a MapHist list message. This list will close soon. Please continue the discussions at the MapHist Forum: http://www.maphist.nl/forum o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + Forwarded by: Tom Sander Washington Map Society + LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington, DC 20540 Jan. 10, 2012 Press contact: Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217, g...@loc.gov Public contact: Center for the Book (202) 707-5221, cfb...@loc.gov Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (202) 707-6382 (voice/tty) or a...@loc.gov The People Behind the Formation of the States’ Borders to Be Discussed “How the States Got Their Shapes Too” Is Mark Stein’s New Book Was Roger Williams too pure for the Puritans, and what does that have to do with Rhode Island? Why did Augustine Herman take 10 years to complete the map that established Delaware? How did Rocky Mountain rogues help create the state of Colorado? All this and more is explained in Mark Stein’s new book. “How the States Got Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the Borderlines” (Smithsonian Press, 2011) is the sequel to Stein’s “How the States Got Their Shapes” (2008). But while the first book told us why the states look as they do, this book tells us who shaped them. Stein will discuss and sign his new work on Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012 at noon in the Mumford Room, located on the sixth floor of the James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, D.C. The event, sponsored by the Center for the Book as part of its Books Beyond author series, is free and open to the public; no tickets are required. The people featured in “How the States Got Their Shapes Too” lived from the colonial era right up to the present. Some are famous, such as Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and Daniel Webster; others are not. Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been performed off-Broadway and at theaters throughout the country. Stein has also taught writing and drama at American University and Catholic University. His previous book, “How the States Got Their Shapes,” a New York Times best-seller, was the basis for The History Channel's documentary of the same name. Stein’s book is also the subject of a discussion on Facebook. The Books Beyond Book Club is available at www.facebook.com/booksandbeyond/. Here readers can discuss books, the authors of which have appeared or will appear in this series. The site also offers links to webcasts of these events and asks readers to talk about what they have seen and heard. Since its creation by Congress in 1977 to “stimulate public interest in books and reading,” the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress (www.Read.gov/cfb/) has become a major national force for reading and literacy promotion. A public-private partnership, it sponsors educational programs that reach readers of all ages, nationally and internationally. The center provides leadership for affiliated state centers for the book (including the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and nonprofit reading-promotion partners and plays a key role in the Library’s annual National Book Festival. It also oversees the Library’s Read.gov website and administers the Library’s Young Readers Center. # # # PR 12-009 01/10/12 ISSN 0731-3527 ___ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
