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A Close Look at the Verbiest Map
A detailed look at the Verbiest Map from the University of Michigan’s Clements Library. Also known as the Kun yu quan tu (坤輿全圖), this is a 1674 Chinese-language map of the world by Jesuit priest Ferdinand… More

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The Constitutionality of Geofence Warrants Is Before the U.S. Supreme Court Today
Are geofence warrants unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution? Geofence warrants require a data provider to provide information on all users and devices within a given area during a given time period.…

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Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Second Edition
A new edition of the Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade (the first edition was published in 2010) came out earlier this month from Yale University Press. From the publisher: In the first edition of Atlas… More

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Heritage Group Seeks Listed Status for First and Last Trig Pillars
The Twentieth Century Society, a heritage group that campaigns to preserve 20th-century British buildings, is trying to get Grade II-listed status for the first and last trig pillars of the Retriangulation of Great Britain, which…

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Alice Hudson and Women in Cartography
Alice Hudson, chief of the New York Public Library’s map division from 1981 to 2009, died in 2024. Last month The Cartographic Journal published a long look at Hudson’s life and career, written by Daniel… More

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