someone like joseph paul martin, whose name is known to most revolutionary war scholars, perhaps there will be more names that individuals go to instead of having one as this stand in perspective. i think we will have a more something along the lines that the revolution, in order to understand the revolution, you need to understand how -- that it was not a single experience. which does not say a lot. >> i think there can be a synthesis, but i think that most older syntheses offered an answer that is nice because it is a solid, strong answer, but it does not take into account a lot of things we are bringing up and that maybe syntheses going forward will -- they will look a little messier. revolutionary america was a messy place. that is ok. -- wenot need to have a already bail and and what -- we andady -- we all read balen wood but maybe those do not fit the way we see it now. it was complicated. there were a lot of perspectives. ways people the thought about it or looked at it. that in itself is something that can -- trying to understand why the nation develops why it does, look at wha