The video of the WMS member meeting on June 16, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Lena Denis from Johns Hopkins University. The title of her presentation is The Foundation and the Gateway: What Maps Show and Hide about Baltimore and American History.

Portolan Issue #113 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 Annual Dinner presentation on May 20, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Matthew Mingus from the University of New Mexico-Gallup. The title of the presentation is Mapping a Defeated Germany in the Aftermath of World War II.

The video of the WMS member meeting on April 20, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area.  The guest speakers were Julie-Sweetkind Singer from Stanford University and Gregory March from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.  The title of their presentation is World War II Captured Maps: The Army Map Service and Two University Libraries.

The video of the WMS member meeting on March 8, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Asa Simon Mittman from California State University, Chico. The title of the presentation is Seeing Across the World: How Medieval Mapmakers Brought their Monsters Home.

The video of the WMS member meeting on February 10, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Barbara Belyea from the University Calgary. The title of the presentation is Papering the Landscape: Maps of Regime Change in North America.

Portolan Issue #112 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 13, 2022 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Benjamin B. Olshin from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. The title of the presentation is Indigenous Mapping: Cultural and Psychological Sources.

The video of the WMS member meeting on December 9, 2021 is now available to view in the Members Area. The guest speaker was Peter A. Cowdrey, Jr. from the Cognetta Family Trust Collection of Historic Florida Maps, Tallahassee, FL. The title of the presentation is The Florida Origins of North American Cartography.

The Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis, Maryland is currently in the process of preparing a mural showing Andrew Ellicott & Benjamin Banneker surveying the boundaries of Washington, D.C. The mural will be dedicated to Chas Langelan, a dedicated former WMS member and board member. The museum has initiated a campaign to fund the mural project. If you would like to find out more information about the mural project or make a donation, please visit the museum's page dedicated to the project.