i am going to turn to tim bailey. tim is -- director of design at the wendy may-dreyer institute of national history day. how does history play a role in encouraging civic engagement but also in sustaining democracy? thank you everyone it is a pleasure to be here thank you for inviting the organization to speak. i think that history education and the study of history is, you cannot separate that from civic education. they are one and the same. to separate them is not official. i know it is done in school systems, a lot, but it is kind of a false way to educate students. not recognizing the importance of history, how that is where civics evolved from. the gilder lehrman institute was founded 27 years ago by richard gilder and louis lehrman, two friends who were entrepreneurs who had a love of american history. over a number of years built the largest private collection of american history private documents in the world at that time. then they decided, what are we gonna do with this? we can use this to give back to our

david bob president of the bill of rights institute, tim bailey director of curriculum development and instructional of the design for the guilder airman institute of american history and wendy, may dryer board chair of eye civics, please join me in welcoming our first panel of the 2022 presidential sites summit. good morning, everyone. i'm kathy goren executive director of national history day. and it's a privilege to to be the moderator of this this panel the session this morning is stuart noted education is absolutely critical and given the times that we're living in history education is especially important for those of you who are not familiar with national history day here. is it quick nutshell version of it. we sponsor a student program for six through 12th graders all across this country and also internationally in fact in which we ask kids to choose topics in history any topic they like and then go out and conduct extensive research into archives and libraries and museums, and i know that many of you have been contacted by our students year after year looking for primary resou