. >> i am robert iuliano president of the college and its a pleasure to join you.lege events had a long relationship with the gilder lehrman institute and it's been a joy to be so involved with the lincoln prize to deserving honoreeses such as elizabeth van and david reynolds for the lincoln prize not only a decadence of the work of scholarship but also as a way of shining a light on ourho shared past and offering a new understanding about how we navigate the f challenges of our world today. it speaks to the education we seek to provide for students at gettysburgrg college. we provide our students with what we call consequential education. one grounded in the belief that knowledge of the past in any discipline our endeavor is critical to the formation of a well reasoned response and it's precisely because of our past we found are committed to the intersection of a defining moment in american history as we have a special capacity and indeed a special obligation to forge the future of our society and our democracy in these most consequential times. as you know the hi