The fourth season of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones kicked off this past week. 6.6 million people tuned into the premiere, making it the most watched single episode of an HBO show since the series ...

Some would call David Rumsey a cartophile, while others may put it more bluntly and say he’s obsessed. Over 30 years he’s personally accumulated over 150,000 maps and he's just donated them all to ...

A.D. 1498. The Discovery of America. An 1830 map from Edward Quin of London showing black clouds receding from the borders to indicate the expansion of geographical knowledge over time Stanford ...

Stanford University opened a map center that offers the public one of the world’s largest private map collections. There are over 150,000 items, including maps, atlases, globes and other objects. San ...

I walk into the Rumsey Collection for the third and possibly final time in my Stanford career. The collection houses some 150,000 maps sourced and donated by prolific collector and historian David ...

When you visit the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University's Green Library, if you can, take the stairs. Yes, you'll have to spiral up three flights, but the wallpaper will give you plenty of ...