A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a presentation about my dissertation research, with a particular focus on one household that I reconstructed, and the ways that it is related to my newer research, which examines and compares the growth of geospatial knowledge of the Great Lakes region in North America and France. I began by taking us back to seventeenth century Montréal. Nicolas Sanson – Le Canada et Nouvelle France (1656) (Showing Montréal’s central positi

In March 2025, I had the opportunity to visit the American Philosophical Society as a David Center for the American Revolution International Fellow to conduct research for a new project. The goal of this project is to explore the growth of geographic knowledge in North America and its relationship to the evolution of map-making and cartographic comprehension of the Great Lakes in Europe. While at the APS, with the help of the wonderful reference staff, librarians, and experts