we're talking with jeffrey pasley from the university of missouri. i want to talk a bit about the history of campaign newspapers. >> thank you. >> and your history blog called public occurrences which is on the commonplace site. what can you tell us about your blog? >> well, what i can tell you about the blog is that it started out as a column on there. i mean, that commonplace has been around for, like, ten years and happened to start actually right when i had just finished my first book and then during the 2000 election crisis, and i was just in kind of a mode where i had a few things -- i had a i had a few things -- i felt like i had a few things to say politically. and i guess i also had the sort of unique position of, i mean, in some ways it doesn't sound that exciting, but it's like, having been kind of a journalist before, you know, i had a sort of journalism period before i went to grad school, so, like, knowing politics, and doing the other republic -- i started seeing these early republic analogies to things. >> what kind of things are you