we drew heavily on the work of foner, andn, eric others. it is in there in an unedited way, the way we would have written it. i think that answers the it remains to be seen how that will in the monument itself. ongoing process, it will continue avella kinds of interpretation and there. here a lotael allers of the public history working thatone involves the idea interpreting history is a process and you are engaging in a dialogue. so you might be delivering information people find surprising and upsetting but the goal is to -- to hit them with it but to engage them in a conversation about what they are learning and what it means to know that. i imagine dealing with difficult that it will take that into part of the model. it is a most difficult aspect of american history and many people cannot expect to accept it with what they have always heard in the past being quite different. >> i think there is a gradual history going on here that is important. remember president obama in to declaring the reconstruction national monument went on to issue

we drew heavily on the work of foner, andn, eric others. it is in there in an unedited way, the way we would have written it. i think that answers the specific question you were getting at, about things that get tapered over. it remains to be seen how that gets substantiated within the monument itself, and there is an ongoing process that will continue about developing the actual site and what kind of interpretation happened there. one model i think is interesting that i so wish michael allen were here -- he talks about a lot of the public history work involvesas done, it the idea that interpreting history to the public is a process, and part of what you are doing is engaging in a dialogue. you might be delivering information people find surprising more upsetting, but the goal is not to necessarily bomb them with it but engages in a conversation about what they are learning and what it means to know that. so in dealing with difficult issues -- or i would hope -- the monument itself will take that as part of the model, that this is some of t