. >> my name is daryl stover out of north carolina. very loud mic. my question is to the whole panel but maybe even more specifically to our honoree. there may have been some directions pointed in the comments given by the panelist. but for me, and especially in these times, my question is what are the important questions we may now start to examine or may point the way for other historians to come relative to looking at the war and its aftermath, relative to african-americans and this whole notion of a long reconstruction. >> let me just briefly comment on that. i think going back at least to the 1930s with w.b. dubois long neglected but now appreciated book "black reconstruction," the impact of the war on ordinary people, not just african-americans but others in america has been an important subject of research in the last 15 or 20 years with respect to african-americans even longer, i think. that's i think kind of a development that will continue and should continue because this was an experience that perhaps more than any other single experience