Thank you for coming. I am pleased to be here at the national archives. I became a great lover of archives by going to institutions smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of the old documents myself. There is nothing like being able to see an original document and touch it and see it with your own eyes. It is a Wonderful Service buildings like this provide in providing access to these materials. Im going to dive in with a reading from the beginning of my book. With the first sentence in the first chapter so there is nothing you need to know going in. The im going to talk about same character i got to know well over the past three years and show you images of some of the maps he still, particularly focusing on the virginia and washington, d. C. Area. Let me dive right in. This is the beginning of my book, the map thief. No matter how much you try to suppress it, the tickle cap freaking out into a cough kept breaking out into a cough. The Manuscript Library at Yale U
Valuable. We all know of john smith from the Virginia Colony down the street from here and his role in founding that and study in 1607. He had sort of a Second Chapter in his life after he was sort of drummed out of virginia for from h reasons that i wont go into. He started exploring this area that was then just known as e was north virginia with the idea of founding a new colony there. And he thought that it needed a known snappier name so he came up with the name new england and john smith was actually the person it who coined that term as a way tome claim this territory for his ew engl home country and sort of tell as the other countries, you know, this is english territory. And he also wanted to claim this his territory for himself and make ort of sure that he got credit for eng discovering it and that he was going to be involved in the sure t colonization and so he put an enormous portrait of himself up it and here in the corner. Be and he was so vain that, a actually updated the
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