https://www.afusa.org/event-rsvp/taking-measure-of-america-how-french-cartographers-shaped-the-new-world-with-roger-mummert/

Join us for an engaging conversation with Roger Mummert, writer and creator of theparisproject.net, and Iris de Rode, historian of the French role in the American Revolution recently seen in Ken Burns’ The American Revolution. Among the first Europeans to reach North America were French explorers and cartographers. The French established a unique relationship with Native Americans, who led them deep into this vast continent and revealed its riches. The maps created from their explorations fundamentally impacted how colonizers would lay claim to enormous…