Video-recordings of past Chicago Map Society meetings are listed below.  Please note that these links will take you to the Chicago Map Society’s YouTube channel, where you will also find additional material contributed by members of the Society. The most recent presentations are listed first.

At the end of page, you will also find a number of presentations in Portable Document Format (PDF) that were originally given using PowerPoint. These presentations are listed in acending chronological order.

Video-Recorded Presentations

Niall Atkinson: Florentine Topographies: The Buildings, Spaces, and People of the Renaissance City (November 2022)

Martin Brückner: Maps & American Literature: A Material History of Practice and Perception (April 2022)

Ronald Grim: A Nation of Immigrants: Mapping American 19th-Century Migration Stories (March 2022)

Molly Briggs: Panoramic City: Immersive Media and the Shape of Chicago (February 2022)

Carl Smith: Chicago’s Great Fire: The Destruction and Resurrection of an Iconic American City (September 2021)

Jeff Kruse: Mapping the Evolution of Edgar Miller’s Graphic Design (July 2021)

Anne Williams: Puzzles in Geography from “Dissected Maps” to “Silent Teachers (June 2021)

Asa Mittman: Far From Jerusalem: The Exclusion of Jews on Christian Maps (May 2021)

Matthew Edney and Mary Pedley: Celebration of Volume 4 of The History of Cartography: Cartography in the European Enlightenment (April 2021)

Benjamin Olshin: Art, the Mughals, and Jahangir’s Globe (March 2021)

John Kulczycki: Lines on the Map: The Process of Setting Poland’s Borders after the World Wars (February 2021)

Linda Gartz: Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago (December 2020)

Dan Vohasek: A Closer Look at a Map of Chicago (September 2020)

Presentations in Portable Document Format

James Akerman, Robert Karrow, and Diane Dillon: A Trio of Exhibits  from the 2007 Festival Maps: “Maps: Finding Our Place in the World,” “Ptolemy’s Geography and Renaissance Mapmakers,” and “Mapping Manifest Destiny: Chicago and the American West”

John Long: Collecting Maps On Postcards (February 2012)

Benjamin B. Olshin: The Mysteries of the Marco Polo Maps (September 2015)

Murray Hudson: A Century of Chicago-Made Globes (May 2017)

Pedro Raposo: Sky Maps and the Origins of Modern Constellations (October 2017)

Mike Flaherty: Melchior Huebinger and the Making of the First Automobile Atlas of Iowa (January 2019)

E. J. Neafsey: Marquette & Joliet: The Mississippi, Illinois and More (October 2020)

Mike Flaherty: A Short History of Map Measuring Devices: How Tools to Measure Scale on Maps Have Evolved From the Victorian Age to the Present (January 2021)