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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=266 height=144 style='width:2.7708in;height:1.5in' src="cid:image002.jpg@01D47FEA.78265580" align=left hspace=12 alt="RMMS_Logo_Color_832121_600pix_3_inches_wide copy.tif" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Elephant'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The Rocky Mountain Map Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>the study and appreciation of maps and other items of cartographic interest. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%'>The Society was formed in 1991 and is based in Denver, Colorado.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:right'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Elephant'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'>Tuesday December 11, 2018 – Susan Schulten: </span></b><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'>“How Maps Reveal (and Conceal) Our History”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=294 valign=top style='width:220.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><img width=299 height=393 style='width:3.1145in;height:4.0937in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D475D5.C97A5B30"><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'>Dr. Susan Schulten<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'>5:30 PM at Denver Public Library, 5<sup>th</sup> Floor, Gates Room <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#C45911'>Free and open to the Public</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#C45911'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=330 valign=top style='width:247.5pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'>Over five hundred years, America has been defined through maps. Whether handmaidens of diplomacy, tools of statecraft, instruments of social reform, or advertisements, these sources offer unique windows onto the past. Join Susan Schulten as she discusses some of the maps and stories featured in her new book, <i>A History of America in 100 Maps</i>. Gathered largely from the British Library’s incomparable collection, these artifacts range from battle plans designed by established figures to unpublished manuscripts drawn by ordinary Americans.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;text-autospace:none'>Susan Schulten is author of <i>Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century America</i> (2012) and <i>The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950</i> (2001). 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