the gilder lehrman institute was founded 27 years ago by richard gilder and louis lehrman, two friends who were entrepreneurs who had a love of american history. over a number of years built the largest private collection of american history private documents in the world at that time. then they decided, what are we gonna do with this? we can use this to give back to our alma mater. we can make a museum. but they really wanted to do was get it into the hands of students, into the hands of children. for exactly this purpose, to teach them a love and appreciation of american history. how a evolution of a people, how that had happened. so they created the institute. we now have over 80,000 documents in our collection. that is the foundation of the institute in the work that we do. to answer your question, that study of american history, by teaching history through the word is the people that made history. not through much uttar pradesh in but teaching students how to study history, in order to gain their own understanding. their own appreciation of their civic role. i think that once you