robert carroll, ron chernau, harold holtzer, who is here this evening, they are reaching out. they are reaching out to a broad public audience in a way that i think has made history more and more relevant and more more importance to a broader audience. but i regret to say it's not my academic colleagues who are doing this. peter: i'm going to disagree with you little. i think a lot of things that come out. a good academic run as a thousand copies. but, i think there's a real synergy between academic historians in public historians. i think there's a place for that focused narrow work, i think of some of these other scholars are building upon what scholars are doing down in the trenches. i agree with your point, much of what we see especially in scholarly journals unfortunately does not resonate or connect with the public. i'll even take a step further, you are good example of this. i don't know when you brought your first class to gettysburg i think that it had a profound impact on your thinking about the common soldier, it also led to activism and no reservation. you are a cl