would you speak how is the training of historians graduate programs addressing the need for rerete rretore cal verbal liter skills. we have seen presentations by highly credentialed and top scholars that were dizzying and so much lost left on the table and they can't communicate effectively. >> so let me just rephrase the question quickly, the question for our television audience a question of communications and the importance of communications and communicating scholarship and what are we doing in our universities and graduate programs to train young historians in verbal, retore cal skills and media skills to bring their history to broader publics. >> i'm thrilled to say we've already had one successful history communication course taught at the graduate level at the university of massachusetts a. amherst, was highly successful. and then there are three more history communication courses coming online in 2018 at universities across the country. it came about as a result of two workshops that were held in 2016. an initial workshop held at umass amherst had about 30 journalists science communic