My published articles about maps of the historic Lithuanian area

The Maps and Mapmakers that Helped Define 20th-Century Lithuanian Boundaries. A series:

Part 1: Administrative Boundaries of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Just Before the Partition of 1772″ (2014)

Part 2: The First Partition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1772 — Its Description and Depiction in Maps” (2015)

Part 3: The Second Partition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1793 — Its Description and Depiction in Maps” (2016)

Part 4: The Third and Last Partition of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; administrative boundaries of Lithuanian lands, 1795 to 1918 (2017)

Part 5: The Role of Ethnic Maps and their Makers in Determining Lithuania’s Post-WWI Borders” (2019)

Part 6: Post-Versailles, Mapmakers Struggle to Depict Lithuania” (2019)

My published autobiography (2010)

Pages 75-79 of issue 238 of the Journal of the Lithuania Philatelic Society

A Lithuanian-language interview with me in the March 30, 2017 issue of Draugas

An article in German with many illustrations by Tomas Nenartovic:
“Kaiserlich-russische, deutsche, polnische, litauische, belarussische und sowjetische kartographische Vorstellungen und territoriale Projekte zur Kontaktregion von Wilna 1795-1939” (Imperial Russian, German, Polish, Lithuanian, Belarussian and Soviet cartographic ideas and territorial projects on the Vilnius region). 

My published articles about stamps from the historic Lithuanian area

‘Ob-Ost’ Civilian Post Offices and Their Cancellations: Making Sense of a Philatelic Stepchild (2013) My research got the American Philatelic Society to change their decades-old categorization of these WWI German- occupied Baltic-area stamps.

Revenue Stamps of Memel / Klaipėda: 1920-1925. Chapter 11, and pages 181 – 205, of “Part I, Memel / Klaipėda Handbook,” by John Neefus, PhD, Audrius Barazdeikis, Editor (2015).

Available as an e-book at: http://mkpdirect.com/

Books about maps

Antique Maps. Carl Moreland and David Bannister, 1998 edition, Phaidon Press, London, England. 326 pages; a couple of pages of maps in color, but mostly black and white. ISBN: 0-07148-2954-4

Lietuva žemėlapiuose (Lithuania on the Map). Aldona Bieliūnienė, Birutė Kulnytė, Rūta Subatniekienė, Lietuvos Nacionalinio Muziejaus Biblioteka, catalog from an exhibition from 1999. 152 pages; profusely illustrated in color and black and white. ISBN 9955-415-13-4

Mapping Europe’s Borderlands. Steven Seegel, 2011, Univ. of Chicago Press, 368 pages, with a view I have not seen before into the behind-the-scenes action influencing creation of maps of Lithuania. ISBN: 0-226-74425-6

Maps and History: Constructing Images of the Past. Jeremy Black, 1997, Yale Univ. Press. 267 pages; a few images in color, but mostly black and white, and mostly text. ISBN: 0-300-06976-6

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet. Nicholas Crane, 2004, Owl Books. 397 pages, just a couple of illustrations, but a fascinating read. ISBN: 0-8050-6625-X

Tooley’s Dictionary of Mapmakers. Josephine French, editor, 1999, Revised Edition from Map Collector Publications. Pricey, but priceless; four volumes profusely illustrated in black and white; ISBN for “A – D,” 408 pages: 0-906430-14-3; for “E – J,” 462 pages: 0-906430-19-4; for “K – P,” 472 pages: 0-906430-20-8; for “Q – Z,” 436 pages: 0-906430-21-6