2024​​​

• ​"Is This North America?" by Don McGuirk Link to Video

• The Role of Maps in Electoral Redistricting" by Rebecca Theobald Link to Video

• "Mapping the Cherokee Trail: Colorado’s Forgotten Highway" by Larry Obermesik Link to Video

2023​​​​

• "The Navigation of the CO-X: Now, and Then" by India Wood Link to Video

• "The Ethics of Mapmaking" by Joseph Kerski

• "Economic Development Impact on Cartography from the Range Industry" by Tim Hagaman Link to Video

• "Early Maps of Denver" by Tom Overton Link to Video

• "Drawing the Line: War, Treaty and Exploration" by Steve Hoffenberg Link to Video

• "Unveiling the Continent's Spine" by Chris Lane Link to Video

• "The Cartographic Roots of Colorado" by Wesley Brown Link to Video

• "What’s My Map Worth? How to Value Antique Maps" by Eliane Dotson Link to Video

• "How Emma Willard Mapped Time" by Susan Schulten Link to Video

• "Mapping a Defeated Germany in the Aftermath of World War II" by Matthew Mingus Link to Video

2022

• "Maps on Stamps and Ephemera" by Steve Nadler Link to Video

• "The 1850 Topographical Engineers' map of the trans-Mississippi West: A Map of National Identity" by Steve Hoffenberg Link to Video

• "Why do Ukranians Feel Different from Russians and Wish to be Independent" by Mary Shaeffer Conroy Link to Video

• "Cartography: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" by Sarah M. Kelly Link to Video

• "Looking at the Greenland Ice Sheet Through Time from the Ground, the Air and from Space" by Michael Willis Link to Video

• "The Geographic Imagination of Pakistan" by Lucy Chester Link to Video

2021

• "The Golden Age of Cartography 1570-1670" by Max Peeters.  Link to video.

• "The Mapping of New Spain and Alzate y Ramirez’s Remarkable Map" by Wes Brown.  Link to video.

• "What sort of world? What sort of map? Radical Cartographies from Latin America" by Joe Bryan. Link to video.

• "Revealing the Mysterious West: Delisle's Revolutionary Maps" by Wes Brown. Link to video.

2020​

• "Forgotten Medieval Worlds: Recovering the Vercelli Map” by Dr. Helen Davies. Link to video.

• "Maps and the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery" by Don McGuirk.  Link to video.

• "Prejudice and the Shaping of the American West" by Chris Lane (video at Washington Map Society)

• “Cartography or Art? The Creation of Iconic Ski Maps” by​ James Niehues 

• “Mapping Mars through Time: From Fantasy to Scientific Understanding" by Dr. Bryan Hynek

• Favorite Maps Event: 10-minute “lightning talks” from RMMS members on the significance of the favorite map from their collections.  Link to video.

  • Michael Drayton. [Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, & Berkshire.] From Poly-Olbion. 1612 (Chris Lane)

  • The 1614 Gerrittsz/Blaeu Map of Russia, dedicated to Tsar Michael Romanov (Lorraine Sherry)

  • The 1686 Du Val Map of Siam, a landmark map of Thailand (Tom Overton)

  • The United States of America with the British possessions...divided with the French, also the Spanish territories...according to the preliminary articles of peace signed at Versailles the 20th of Jany; 1783. [1790]. (Don McGuirk)

  • Reclaiming land in the Netherlands, in maps, 1844 to today (Max Peeters)

  • Lieutenants Abert and Peck's 1845 exploration of discovery on the Arkansas and Canadian Rivers (Wes Brown)

  • Il Granducato di Toscana, by Matteo Pagani, 1773 (Tad Kelly)

• "Which Rivers Go Where?: French Efforts to Understand and Map the American West, 1670-1700" by Peter H. Wood.  Link to video.

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2019

• “Creating Connections and Geospatial Intelligence for a Better World” by Dr. Amy Newbury​

• "Mapping uncertainty and unlocking ancestry in Trans-Atlantic migrations of the Slave Trade" by Henry Lovejoy

• "The cartographic legacy of Spanish military engineers for Greater Southwest" by Dennis Reinhartz

• "How the Sierra Nevada made Colorado" by Craig Jones

• "In the Footsteps of the Crime:Tracking and Recovering Maps Stolen by Forbes Smiley" by Dr. Ronald E. Grim

  A link to the exhibit at Boston Public Library and an article about Smiley

• "Why the Map Trade still matters in the Age of the Internet" by Michael Buehler

• "Geographies Unrealized: The story of four cartographic myths of North America" by Don McGuirk

• "Colorado: A Historical Atlas, and Color-Oddities" by Dr. Thomas J. Noel

• Sixth Annual Map Month Presentations

  • "Images of Colorado: A century of printed views, 1822-1922" by Chris Lane

  • "The cartographic roots of Colorado: 1540 to 1861" by Wes Brown

  • "The Mapping of Colorado: 1861 to WW1" by Tom Overton

  • "The first comprehensive survey of Colorado: F.V. Hayden, 1869-1876" by Chris Lane.

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2018

• "How Maps Reveal (and Conceal) Our History" by Susan Schulten

• "Gerrymandering: Our Perennial Partisan Political Pastime in Maps" by Vincent Szilagyi

• "The Mapping of Pluto and Its Moons" by Catherine Olkin

• "The 100 Most Revolutionary Discoveries in the Field of Geography" by Joseph Kerski

• "The Scramble for Africa: Colonial Africa Explored through Maps and Artwork" by Vincent Szilagyi

• Fifth Annual Map Month Presentations

  • "Mapping the French and Indian War" by Chris Lane

  • "Mapping the Civil War" by Susan Schulten

  • "Cold War Cartography" by Greg Miller

  • "Maps of the 10th Mountain Division" by David Little

 

2017

• "The Shogun's World: Japanese Maps from the 19th and 19th Centuries" by Richard Pegg

• "The Rio Colorado of the West: 19th Century Exploration and Cartography" by Imre Demhardt

• "A Survey of the Stars and Stripes on Early Maps, 1777-1795" by Don McGuirk

• View Private Collection - Reception at the Offices of Bill Bostrom

• "The Journey of the 'Yazoo Mingo' Moncacht-Ape..." by Don McGuirk

• "Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin..." by Prof. John Kessell

• "The Power of Maps" guest lecture series by Lorraine Sherry at Academy for Lifelong Learning

• Fourth Annual Map Month Presentations

  • "Maps in Paintings" by Kate Stuart

  • "Maps as Art and Maps as Information" by Marcia Yonemoto

  • "The Selden Map and Ming China's Maritime World" by Tianlong Jiao

  • "Art and Cartography" by Susan Schulten

  • "Follow Your Flight: Souvenir Airline Passenger Maps, 1920s-1980s" by Ralph Ehrenberg

 

2016

• "New Light on Henricus Martellus’ World Map at Yale (c. 1491)" by Chet Van Duzer

• "Cartifacts IV" - Short presentations by RMMS Members and Swap Meet

• "Marie Tharp, Illustrator of a Paradigm" by John Lindemann

• "Lithuania and the Baltic States" by Lorraine Sherry

• Third Annual Map Month Presentations

  • "Sea Monster of Olaus Magnus: Lore & legacy of the 1539 Carta Marina" by Joseph Nigg

  • "The Edges of the Earth in Herodotus's Histories" by John Gibert

  • "Mapmaking and Mythmaking" by P.J. Mode

  • "Sea of the West: The imagined sea in the heart of North America" by Don McGuirk

  • "The Enormous Mythical San Luis Lake of Colorado" by Wes Brown

  • "Cartographic Myths of the American West" by Chris Lane

 

2015

• "Myths, Men and Monsters: Exploration and Cartography in Central Africa" by Vincent Szilagyi

• "Examining 100 Years of USGS Topographic Maps in a Web-Based Platform" by Joseph Kerski

• "William Henry Jackson, Artist and Mapmaker in His Later Years" by Camille Bradford

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Don and Diane McGuirk

• "The Power of Maps" guest lecture series by Lorraine Sherry at Academy for Lifelong Learning

• Second Annual Map Month Presentations

  • "A Luddite's View of the History of Cartography in the 20th Century" by Jim Akerman

  • "How an Artist Reinvented the Map" by Susan Schulten

  • "Pictorial Maps: A History and Overview" by Curtis Bird

  • "Promotional Cartographies: The Clason Map Company & the American West 1903-1931" by Bill Wyckoff

 

2014

• "On the Brink of Disaster: George Washington and the American Revolution" by Ron Gibbs

• "Culture, Contact and the Agency of Appropriation in a 1741 Map of Nagasaki" by Joshua Marcotte at D.U.

• "Yo-ho-ho and a Rhumb Line! A whimsical look at pirate maps" by Tom Overton

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Steve and Beverly Hoffenberg

• View Map Collection - CU-Boulder's Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences and Map Library

• View Map Treasures of History Colorado - at the new History Colorado Museum

• First Annual Map Month Presentations

  • "7 Ways to Map the World in 1500: A Collector's Challenge" by Wes Brown

  • "Where to Draw the Line? Mapping the US-Mexico Border" by Angel Abbud-Madrid

  • "Cartography of the Indian Country" by Steve Hoffenberg

  • "Unfolding the West" (19th Century maps) by Chris Lane

 

2013

• "Mapping the Invisible: Cartographic Experimentation in the New Nation" by Susan Schulten

• "Alexandrine Tinne: A Dutchwoman in Search of the Source of the Nile" by Mylynka K. Cardona

• "The Power of Maps" guest lecture series by Lorraine Sherry at Academy for Lifelong Learning

• "Is North America REALLY Pictured on the Waldseemuller World Map of 1507?" by Don McGuirk

• "Mt. Everest: Why did it get this name?" by John Boyle at American Alpine Club Library, Golden

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Chris and Lindsey Lane

• View Map Collection - University of Denver's maps and exhibits at Anderson Academic Commons

• "NASA Cartography, 1960-2013" by Dr. Nevin Bryant of JPL

• "Cartifacts III" - Short presentations by RMMS Members and Swap Meet

• "Making a Mine Map, Old Style" by Warren Andrews

 

2012

• "Maps at the Antiques Road Show" by Chris Lane

• "In the Contours of a Water Judge: Colorado Centennial State at the Headwaters" 
  by Justice Gregory J. Hobbs, Jr.

• "Digital Cartography for Poets" by Norman Olsen [basic concepts of map projections]

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Peter and Julie Hughes

• "Optimum Scale: Colorado's Geologic Mapping Program" by David C. Noe

• "The Discovery of the New World through Old Maps" by Wes Brown

• "GIS: The Future is NOW" by Zahid S. Chaudhry

• "Mapping the Nation's Highways from Auto Trails to Interstates" by Lee Whiteley

 

2011

• "William Maclure's 1809 Geologic Map of the United States" by John Lindemann

• "Cartifacts II" - Short presentations by RMMS Members and Swap Meet

• "A Short History of Road Map Publishing from a Collector's Perspective" by Mark Greaves

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Ron and Jane Gibbs

• "Google Earth: A New Perspective On Geography" by Aidan Chopra

• "How Maps Are Made: Creation of Printed Maps from the 15th-19th Century" by Chris Lane

• "Colorado and the Four Great Geological Surveys, 1867-1869" by Emmett Evanoff

 

2010

• "Alexander von Humboldt and the Mapping of the Americas" by Imre Josef Demhardt

• "19th Century Maps in Modern Environmental Studies" by Stefan Leyk

• "Jeppesen: The Man and the Company" by Michael Pound

• "Thomas Jefferson: The Louisiana Purchase and First Maps of the Rockies" by Ralph Ehrenberg

• "The Lewis Evans British Middle Colonies - A Collector's Perspective" by Steve Hoffenberg

 

2009

• "A Remarkable Early (1602) Spanish Manuscript Map of the Southern Plains" by Paul Mathias

• "Four Great North American Explorers" by Bruce C. Paton

• "Cartifacts I" - Short presentations (cartographic artifacts) by RMMS Members and Swap Meet

• "Thematic Cartography and the Rise of the Nation in the Nineteenth Century" by Susan Schulten

• "Seymour Schwartz Map Collection at U. of Virginia" by Hoke Perkins and Karin Wittenborg

 

2008

• "Planning for the Disposition of Your Map Collection" Panel Discussion chaired by Tom Overton

• "Treasures of the Map Room at The Arthur Lakes Library" by Chris Thiry at Colorado School of Mines

• "The Power of Maps" guest lecture series by Richard Baum at OLLI at D.U.

• "Where to Draw the Line? Mapping the US-Mexico Border" by Angel Abbud-Madrid

• "The Changing Face of Colorado: County Boundaries 1861-1913" by Tom Overton.

 

2007

• "The Kansas Pocket Maps of O.B. Gunn and D.T. Mitchell" by Scott McEathron at Colorado Historical Society

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Richard and Marcia Baum

• View "Graham and Barbara Curtis Print Collection" at Littleton Museum

• "The Cartography of Indian Country" by Steve Hoffenberg

• "Maps on stamps" by Carl Barna

 

2006

• "Captain Cook: The Art of Discovery" by Ron Gibbs

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Lorraine Sherry

• "Cartographic myths of North America" by Don McGuirk

• "How the 1859 Gold Rush put Colorado on the Map" by Wes Brown

 

2005

• View Private Collection at Law Offices of Bill Bostrom

• View Map Collection at First United Bank

• "John Speed 1552-1629" by Jim Hensinger

 

2004

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Tad Kelly

• "Automobile Road Maps: Capture and relive the glorious adventures" by Mark Greaves

• "Map Collecting 101" by Myron West

 

2003

• "Mapped Myths" - a map-themed program with presentations by RMMS members

• "Mapping for the Railroad: John C. Fremont's Disastrous 4th Expedition"

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Wes Brown

• "Shaping the West" by John Hebert at Colorado Historical Society

 

2002

• "The Consequences of Quivira" by Paul Mathias

• "Lost Towns found on Map" (early Colorado settlements) by Kirk Volkel and Gene Jackson

• "The 1507 world map by Martin Waldseemuller; a cartographic gem" by John Hebert

• "Collecting and Enjoying Maps of South and Central Asia" by William Spengler

• View Private Collection - home-hosted visit by Don and Diane McGuirk

 

2001

• "Rumors of Gold in the Rockies" exhibit arranged by Philip Panum at Denver Public Library

• "Preserving Antique Works on Paper" by Karen Jones of Jefferson County Library

• "The Discovery of the New World Through Old Maps" by Wes Brown

• "The Appearance of the 'Sea of the West' on Early Maps" by Don McGuirk

 

2000

• "Images of 19th Century Colorado: Exploration to Surveys" by Rose A. Taht and Philip Panum

• "Rocky Mountain Map Society's Map Fair Buy and Trade" at Denver Athletic Club

• "Maps on the World-Wide Web" by Myron West

• "Historical Features Along the Front Range from the 1860's and Earlier" by Glenn Scott

 

1999

• "20th Century Maps Depicting Events of the 20th Century" by Paul Mahoney

• View Map Treasures of History Colorado - History Colorado Museum

• "The 1475 World Map in the Rudimentum Novitorium" by Wes Brown

 

1991-1998

• "Collectors and Collections" by Ken Nebenzahl of the Newberry Library, Chicago

• "The Vinland Map" by Thomas Cahill, U. of California at Davis

• Private tour of Pierson Graphics and Maps Unlimited

• Exhibit: "The Emergence of Colorado on Maps between the 15th & 20th Centuries"

• "Mapping of California as an island"

• "20th Century Road Maps of the United States" by Mark Greaves

• "The History of Denver in Maps" by Wes Brown

• "Exploration and Mapping of Wyoming"

• View "Art on Paper Exhibition" at Loveland Museum and Gallery

• "Railroad Maps of Colorado"

• "The Maps of Lewis and Clark"

• "An 1811 Manuscript Map Of Wyoming"

• "Early Maps of Spanish New Mexico" by Paul Mathias

• "The Surveys and Maps of Ferdinand Hayden"

• "Dutch Cartography from the 16th and 17th Centuries" by Dirk DePagter

• "Maps of the Gettysburg Battlefield"

• "Early Trails in Colorado"

• "Antique Maps on the Internet" by Myron West

• "The Ruysch Map of 1507 and Sylvanus Map of 1511" by Don McGuirk

• "USGS Re-discovery and Re-publication of the 1894 Colorado James McConnell School Map"

• First RMMS lecture: "Overview History of the Mapping of Colorado" given on February 21, 1991. by Paul Mahoney