again i want to congratulate elizabeth varon and david reynolds.ant to especially acknowledge our gratitude for nick gilder for all he did including through his support of the lincoln prize and a wish to thank louis lehrman for his vision and leadership and commitment to improving our understanding of the world in the studies of our past and lastly a big thank you to all of you so much for joining us in a special event in a tour to seeing you at the gettysburg college in the years ahead. take care now. >> thank you bob. i'm a senior in new york city and member of the student advisory council of the gilder lehrman institute for history. i'm pleased to announce i've been accepted into three colleges including syracuse university manhattan college and i am a college and will start soon in the fall but i'm honored to take the next that. lincoln prizewinner martha hodes suppressed besser of history at new york university winner of the 2016 gilder lehrman lincoln prize for her book mourning lincoln. professor sipri will present the finals for the 2020 li