How Borders Have Shaped American Identity (WNYC)

From The Leonard Lopate Show (WNYC):

Andrew Ellicott was a surveyor and boundary commissioner who, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, laid down many of the borders that now demarcate the United States from Canada and state from state. Andro Linklater pays tribute to Ellicott and our borders in a new book called The Fabric of America: How Our Borders and Boundaries Shaped the Country and Forged Our National Identity.

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2007/06/29