Join the Fort Pitt Museum in welcoming S. Max Edelson, professor of History at the University of Virginia, for a discussion on the British efforts to map America before the American Revolution.
In the generation before the American Revolution, British surveyors drew thousands of new maps of American territories. With ink and paper, they mapped out a new empire, controlled from London, over which American colonists had little influence.
Illustrated by a dynamic digital presentation that features original maps of Florida, the New England coast, the Mississippi River, the Native American frontier, island colonies in the Caribbean, and Fort Pitt, Edelson will explain how Americans reacted to this grand scheme of control and rejected the bonds of empire.
Admission to this Fort Pitt Speaker Series program is $15 for adults and $10 for students and History Center members. Please register online in advance.
Admission is $15 for general public.
Email: kmroberts@heinzhistorycenter.org
2019/08/31 - 2019/08/31
Fort Pitt Museum
Point State Park, 601 Commonwealth Place, Pittsburgh, PA 15222